JOSEF FLOCH* (Vienna 1894 - 1977 New York)

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  JOSEF FLOCH*
  (Vienna 1894 - 1977 New York)
  Mimi and Gitou (mother and child), 1928
  oil/canvas, 73 x 50 cm
  depicted in catalogue raisonné Floch, Vienna 2000, p. 150, No. 117
  provenance: private property Vienna
  
  ESTIMATE Euro 20.000 - 30.000
  STARTING PRICE Euro 20.000
  
  The Austrian-American painter Josef Floch studied with Rudolf Bacher, Franz Rumpler and Hans Tichy at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts from 1913 to 1918. Study trips led him to Egypt and Palestine and the Netherlands, where he studied Rembrandt and Vermeer's work. From 1922 to 1938 Floch was a member of the Hagenbund and participated in his exhibitions. In 1925/1926 he moved to Paris; Exhibition participations in the Salon d’Automne, in the Salon of the Tuileries and in the Gallery of Berthe Weill (Pablo Picasso, Amedeo Modigliani). Floch was close friends with Willy Eisenschitz. In 1941, the family floch emigrated to New York, on board the notorious Navemar. Ernst Lachs (later employees in the Office of Strategic Seevices, OSS, and in the American Foreign Ministry), his wife Minna Lachs (pedagogue and later in the Austrian UNESCO Commission) and son Thomas Lachs (later director of the Austrian National Bank, were also on the ship ). In 1944 Floch had an exhibition in the Associate American Artists Gallery and subsequently in numerous museums. 1956 Cross of the French Legion of Honor, 1963 Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et Lettres. Floch's beginnings were in expressionism; He was largely influenced by Paul Cézanne and van Gogh, Hans von Marées and the old Dutch. Silence, melancholic figure images, landscapes, interiors and portraits.
  
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