TRUDE WAEHNER* (Vienna 1900 - 1979 Vienna)

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• Lot Description
  TRUDE WAEHNER*
  (Vienna 1900 - 1979 Vienna)
  Couple in the park
  oil/canvas, 89.5 x 59.5 cm
  signed Waehner
  depicted in Trude Waehner, America 1938 - 1947, Vienna 2010, p. 26
  provenance: estate of the artist, Kunsthandel Widder Vienna
  
  ESTIMATE #Euro 2.000 - 4.000
  STARTING PRICE #Euro 2.000
  
  Austrian painter of the 20th century. Studied at the Academy of Music for two years, then at the Vienna School of Art at Oskar Strnad and Josef Frank. From 1928 at the recommendation of Walter Gropius and mediation by Josef Frank at the Bauhaus in Dessau in the class of Paul Klee. Visited courses from Wassily Kandinsky. Went to Berlin in 1932, contact with Bruno Cassirer and contact with Bert Brecht, Otto Dix, Klaus and Erika Mann. In 1933 she went back to Vienna and fled to Switzerland, France, England to the USA after the connection in 1938. Her studio in Buchfeldgasse in Vienna was taken over by Heimito von Doderer, Albert Paris Guetersloh lived there as a sub-tenant. Always critical of Anti-Semitism and fascism, her second husband was Jewish origin. In the United States, she gave art lessons at Sarah Lawrence College in New York and at the Moravian Seminary and College for Women in Pennsylvania. After the war she lived in Vienna, South of France (Dieulefit) and Venice. 1937 Personnel in the Wuerthle gallery, member of the Austrian Werkbund. Began to make woodcuts more in Venice, many portraits and portraits of musicians, cellists, composers and conductors. German conductor Burno Walter Jewish origin was the chief conductor of the New York Philharmonic, constant guest conductor of the Vienna Philharmonic and dealt intensively with Gustav Mahler from 1947 to 1949. Lived after his emigration in California, friendships with Thomas Mann, Franz Werfel and Bruno Frank.
  
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