KARL ROESSING* (Gmunden 1897 - 1987 Wels)

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  KARL ROESSING* (Gmunden 1897 - 1987 Wels)
  Still life with shoe trees
  oil/canvas, 34,5 x 40 cm
  monogrammed KR, dated 24
  verso inscribed Karl Roessing, Geschenk von Sabine Bloch Jan. 1984
  
  ESTIMATE € 8000 - 14000
  STARTING PRICE € 8000
  
  The Austrian painter, graphic artist and book illustrator Karl Rössing. He mainly created wood engravings, linocuts and wood panel prints as well as oil paintings and picture drawings. Among other things, he processed tendencies of Surrealism and New Objectivity and took inspiration from film and literature. He worked as a university lecturer in Essen, Berlin and Stuttgart. His students included Heinz Kiwitz, Hermann Schardt and Günther Strupp, Ullrich Bewersdorff and Heinz Theuerjahr, Bernd Becher, Robert Förch, Wolfgang Gäfgen, Dieter Groß, Romuald Hengstler, Christine Heuer, Heinrich Heuer, Friedrich Meckseper, Walter Rabe, Malte Sartorius, Günter Schöllkopf, Hermann Sturm, Hans Peter Willberg. Karl Rössing was married to the painter Erika Rössing, née Glöckner, from 1922. From 1913 to 1917 Rössing studied at the Royal School of Applied Arts in Munich, directed by Richard Riemerschmid; he was a member of the German Werkbund. His first exhibition took place in 1915 at the Graphic Cabinet Schmidt-Bertsch in Munich. In 1916 publications in “Die Furche” and “German Student Work in Field and Homeland” followed. His first woodcut was created in 1917, and Rössing received the commission from Emil Kugler to illustrate the “Hausmärchen der Kuglerkinder”, published in 1920. Woodcuts and illustrations formed the first mainstay for Rössing. In 1919 Rössing took part in an exhibition of the New Secession in Munich, where Rainer Maria Rilke noticed him. Josef August Lux invited him to work on the “Art and Culture Council”. In 1921, Rössing took part in the international black and white exhibition of the artists' association “Der Wassermann” with Ernst Barlach, George Grosz, Alfred Kubin and Käthe Kollwitz and received the silver medal from the Republic of Austria. In the same year, Rössing took over the book trade and graphics department at the Folkwangschule in Essen. In 1939 he became a life professor at the State University of Art Education in Berlin. In 1947, Rössing became a life professor at the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart, where he took over the area of ​​free graphics and illustration. He became a member of the German Artists' Association, the “Table of 13” and the international woodcutters' association XYLON; In Austria he and his wife Erika were members of the artists' association MAERZ. Around 1950 Rössing switched from woodcuts to linocuts. In 1977, the Stuttgart Academy showed a retrospective on Rössing's 80th birthday.
  
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