ALBERT BIRKLE* (Berlin 1900 - 1986 Salzburg)

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  ALBERT BIRKLE* (Berlin 1900 - 1986 Salzburg)
  Ikarus
  mixed media/paper, 56,8 x 49,4 cm
  signed Albert Birkle
  inscribed Ikarus
  verso pencil study male nude
  
  ESTIMATE € 1000 - 2000
  STARTING PRICE € 1000
  
  The German painter and draftsman Albert Birkle completed an apprenticeship as a decorative painter, studied from 1920 to 1925 at the Hochschule für bildende Künste in Berlin and was a master student of Arthur von Kampf. During his studies, he developed a religiously influenced, socially critical realism with formal-aesthetic, neo-objective elements, which bore caricatural traits, especially in his character heads. Standing between Expressionism and New Objectivity and often overdrawn into the fantastic, a direct and close reference to the Christian Passion is often recognizable. As the youngest member, Birkle was accepted into the Berlin Secession in 1921; later he was accepted into the Prussian Academy of Arts, led by Max Liebermann as president. The artist turned down the offer of a professorship at the Königsberg Academy in 1927 in order to carry out commissions for church murals in Gaislingen and Katowice, among other places. After the seizure of power Birkle moved to Salzburg, keeping his Berlin studio. In 1936 he exhibited at the Berlin National Gallery and represented Germany at the Venice Biennale. The paintings shown there were removed from the Haus der Deutschen Kunst in Munich in 1937, other works of his were confiscated from public collections as degenerate, and he himself was banned from painting. Birkle volunteered for the Reich Labor Service, which allowed him to temporarily avoid military service. He worked as a war painter, war correspondent and had to enlist in 1944. In 1946 Birkle received Austrian citizenship and devoted himself primarily to sacred design paths as a glass painter. In the 1950s and 1960s he produced significant works in this field. In his late work as a painter and draftsman, he drew on the socially critical tendencies of his early motifs in an expressive style. Daedalus/Daidalos and his son Icarus/Ikaros were imprisoned by King Minos in the Minotaur's labyrinth on Crete as punishment because Daedalus had given Theseus helpful tips on how to use Ariadne's thread. Since Minos controlled the sea and the land, Daedalus invented wings for himself and his son from feathers that he attached to a rod with wax. Before takeoff, he warned Icarus not to fly too high or too low, otherwise the heat of the sun or the moisture of the sea would cause him to crash. After they passed Samos, Delos and Lebinthos, Icarus became cocky and climbed so high that the sun melted the wax, whereupon the feathers came off and he fell into the sea. The desperate Daedalus named the island where he buried his son Ikaria. According to Ovid, the gods let Icarus die in revenge because Daedalus murdered his nephew and student Perdix out of envy of his skills.
  
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