KARL MEDIZ (Vienna 1868 - Dresden) Birches, 1894

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  KARL MEDIZ
  (Vienna 1868 - Dresden)
  Birches, 1894
  pencil and colored pencil/paper, 30,3 x 45,1 cm
  signed K. Mediz and dated March 1894
  Provenance: estate of the artist, Gertrude Honzatko-Mediz Zurich (daughter of the artist), Republic of Austria - financial procuration, Gallery Kurt Kalb Vienna, Fine Arts Dr. Margarete Widder Linz, private property Austria
  
  ESTIMATE °€ 1.500 - 2.500
  
  Studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna with Christian Griepenkerl, at the Academy in Munich and at the Private Academy Julian in Paris. He stayed in the artists' colony Dachau, was married to Emilie Mediz-Pelikan. Member of the Hagenbund, created landscapes and portraits. Attributed to Art Nouveau, symbolistic elements remind of Ferdinand Hodler and Giovanni Segantini. Many trips to Hungary and Italy, from 1894 in Dresden.
  
  Karl Mediz came from a merchant family in Hernals and grew up with his aunt in Retz. He first completed an apprenticeship in his uncle's general store. Due to his artistic talent, he then studied at the Academy of Fine Arts with Griepenkerl and L'Allemand, in Munich with Wagner and Goltz and at the private academy Julian in Paris. In the artists' colony in Dachau, he met his future wife, the painter Emilie Mediz-Pelikan, whom he married in 1891. From 1894 on Mediz often stayed in Dresden, where he later settled. There he was soon appreciated as a portraitist. Together, the couple developed their own style, somewhere between Impressionism, Symbolism and formal art, with which they finally found the recognition in Dresden that they had previously been denied in Vienna. Similar to Emilie Mediz-Pelikan, Karl Mediz subjects were mainly landscape and portrait paintings, partly influenced by Ferdinand Hodler and Giovanni Segantini. From 1902 to 1912 Mediz was a member of the Hagenbund. After the early death of his wife in 1908, Mediz withdrew from the public eye and devoted himself almost exclusively to graphics. The estate of the artist couple was given to the Republic of Austria in the 1980s, having previously been in the former GDR.
  
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