GISELBERT HOKE* (Warnsdorf 1927 - 2015 Klagenfurt) Sitter, 1979 tempera/paper, 65 x 48,5 cm signed Hoke, dated 11.6.1979 ESTIMATE € 8000 - 12000 STARTING PRICE € 8000 Giselbert Hoke was an Austrian artist of the 20th century who, in addition to watercolours, oil paintings and lithographs, also made frescoes and glass works. He was born in northern Bohemia as the second of six children. He became interested in blacksmithing at an early age, but became involved in the turmoil of World War II, where he was severely wounded at the age of seventeen and lost his right arm. After being a prisoner of war, Hoke's new life began when he passed his high school diploma and entered the academy, where he began his own artistic path in the circle of Lehmden, Avramidis, Hrdlicka and Hundertwasser. His whole nature with its inner passionate power, which had once brought him to the forge, he now realized in large picture formats. Since 1958 the artist has been working with glass in ever more diverse ways. Glass walls were created for St. Florian in Vienna, the farewell hall in Klagenfurt, the University of Vienna and a glass wheel in Coburg. In 1956, as the winner of the competition, he created the frescoes for the Klagenfurt train station, triggering an art scandal. In 1974 Hoke was appointed university professor at Graz University of Technology, where he began to set up an institute for artistic design. He headed this institute until 1995. Hoke's studio and workshops are located in Saager Castle in Carinthia, which Hoke acquired in 1961. 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.