FERDINAND KITT* (Vienna 1887 - 1961 Vienna)

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• Lot Description
  FERDINAND KITT*
  (Vienna 1887 - 1961 Vienna)
  View over the Wolfgangsee, 1925
  watercolor/paper, 37.5 x 52 cm
  signed F. Kitt, dated 1925
  provenance: private collection Vienna
  
  ESTIMATE Euro 800 - 1.500
  STARTING PRICE Euro 800
  
  Ferdinand Kitt, Austrian painter and representative of a moderate Expressionism, studied with Rudolf Bacher at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna from 1907 to 1914, when he made a trip to Italy with him and with Josef Dobrowsky. In 1919 he became a member of the Vienna Secession, of which he was president from 1926 to 1929. The Zinkenbach Painters' Colony initiated by Kitt existed from 1927 to 1938. From 1928 to 1947 he was a professor at the Vienna Women's Academy. During the war years, when the Secession was dissolved, he joined the Kuenstlerhaus Wien. With the reestablishment of the Vienna Secession in 1945, Kitt was once again among its members. After the war, he left his destroyed studio in Vienna and moved permanently to Gschwand on Lake Wolfgang. Kitt worked mainly in portrait, genre and landscape painting and as a draftsman for tapestries and graffiti. He was buried in the Vienna Central Cemetery. The three-act Singspiel "Im weißen Roeßl" by Ralph Benatzky (1930) is also set at Wolfgangsee in the Salzkammergut. The libretto was written by the composer together with Hans Mueller-Einigen and Erik Charell. The song lyrics were written by Robert Gilbert, musical interludes by Bruno Granichstaedten, Robert Gilbert and Robert Stolz. It was based on an old Berlin comedy of the same name by Oskar Blumenthal and Gustav Kadelburg, which the authors wrote in 1896 during a stay at the Blumenthal Villa near Bad Ischl. "Im weißen Roeßl" premiered at the Großes Schauspielhaus in Berlin on November 8, 1930, in a production by Erik Charell with Max Hansen as Leopold and Camilla Spira as Josepha. The stage design was by Ernst Stern. Among the numerous film adaptations, the one by Werner Jacobs ("Im Weißen Roeßl," 1960) with Waltraut Haas and Peter Alexander is the best known.
  
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