WILHELM THoeNY (Graz 1888 - 1949 New York) Artist's wardrobe, around 1935 indian ink, washed/paper, 23 x 29,5 cm ...

WILHELM THoeNY (Graz 1888 - 1949 New York)
Artist's wardrobe, around 1935
indian ink, washed/paper, 23 x 29,5 cm
signed W. Thoeny, see Koschatzky 1963, p. 19

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Austrian painter, graphic artist, etcher and illustrator of the 20th century, important representative of Austrian modernism. From 1908 to 1912 studied at the Academy of Fine Arts with Angelo Jank and Gabriel von Hackl. Also trained in singing and piano playing. Co-founder of the Munich Secession, lifelong acquaintance with Alfred Kubin. As a one-year volunteer in World War I, created portrait studies and illustrations as a regimental painter. 1923 Co-founder of the Graz Secession. 1925 Married Thea Herrmann-Trautner, daughter of the American painter Frank S. Herrmann, sister of the painter and caricaturist Eva Herrmann. 1929 first stay in Paris, lived in Paris from 1931 to 1938. 1938 emigration with his Jewish wife to New York. 1948 destruction of most of his works by fire in a stock in New York. Diverse themes and techniques, landscapes and especially cityscapes of large cities such as Paris and New York. Also the genre scenes show involvement with Advard Munch and August Macke.

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