FRANZ WIEGELE (Noetsch im Gailtail 1887 - 1944 Noetsch im Gailtal) Female nude, 1911 pencil/paper, 26 x 44 cm signed Franz Wiegele, dated december 1911 ESTIMATE € 5000 - 10000 STARTING PRICE € 5000 With his portraits and female nude paintings, the Austrian painter Franz Wiegele is one of the pioneers of modern painting in Austria. From 1907 to 1911 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. Anton met Kolig there; He first appeared in public at an exhibition in Vienna in 1909 with Sebastian Isepp, Anton Faistauer, Egon Schiele and Albert Paris Gütersloh. In 1911, his work "Nudes in the Forest" aroused the anger of the heir to the throne, Franz Ferdinand, at an exhibition organized by the Hagenbund. In 1912 Wiegele received a scholarship to study in Paris. During the First World War he was taken prisoner by the French in the Sahara. In 1916 he was released to Switzerland. He worked in Zurich until 1925, where his major work "The Greens" was written in 1919. In 1925 he returned to Nφtsch. After exhibitions in Switzerland, he took part in exhibitions in Pittsburgh, Brussels and Venice. Wiegele died in a bomb attack in his studio in Nötsch; many of his works were destroyed. PLEASE NOTE: The purchase price consists of the highest bid plus the buyer's premium, sales tax and, if applicable, the fee of artists resale rights. In the case of normal taxation (marked °), a premium of 24% is added to the highest bid. The mandatory sales tax of 13%, for photographys 20%, is added to the sum of the highest bid and the buyer's premium. The buyer's premium amounts to 28% in case of differential taxation. The sales tax is included in the differential taxation.