Erich Fitzbauer* (born 1927 in Vienna)
Erich Fitzbauer* (born 1927 in Vienna)
Husum, 1984
charcoal/paper 32,5 x 42,5 cm
signed Fitzbauer, dated 84
inscribed Husum
SCHÄTZPREIS / ESTIMATE °€ 80 - 150
STARTPREIS / STARTING PRICE °€ 80
An Austrian graphic artist, illustrator, writer and publisher of the 20th century. Born in Vienna in 1927, he studied philosophy, German and English, was a secondary school teacher at the Hernalser Gymnasium, and worked as a printer and collector of prints under the pseudonym Hieronymus Zyx. As Hieronymus Zyx, he was active, amongst other things, within the circles of the Vienna Bibliophiles’ Society and the Edition Grafischer Zirkel, where his collection of prints and his love of satire found expression. After serving in the military from 1943 to 1945, he lived in Perchtoldsdorf from 1976 onwards and later in Eichgraben in the Vienna Woods, where he published works such as *Mond im kleinen Bären* (1979) and organised exhibitions in Lower Austria. Fitzbauer created satirical riddle poems and puns, drawings and prints featuring absurdly humorous, critically subverted motifs, often in colourful reading books and picture books in which wordplay, satire and absurdity are closely intertwined. Alongside motifs from the Vienna Woods and landscapes of the Danube, urban scenes and references to the Vienna Künstlerhaus feature repeatedly, so that his work oscillates between literary-graphic satire and landscape-based visual poetry. As an author, draughtsman and collector, he thus combined wordplay with a joy of visual storytelling; he is a recipient of the Lower Austria Culture Prize.
PLEASE NOTE:
The purchase price consists of the highest bid plus the buyer's premium, sales tax and, if applicable, the fee of artists resale rights and platform fee. In the case of normal taxation (marked ° at the estimate), a premium of 24% is added to the highest bid. The mandatory sales tax is added to the sum of the highest bid, the buyer's premium and platform fee. This amounts to 13% for paintings, drawings, graphic works and sculptures and 20% for photographs and all other items. The buyer's premium amounts to 28% in case of differential taxation. The sales tax is included in the differential taxation.
Erich Fitzbauer* (born 1927 in Vienna)
Husum, 1984
charcoal/paper 32,5 x 42,5 cm
signed Fitzbauer, dated 84
inscribed Husum
SCHÄTZPREIS / ESTIMATE °€ 80 - 150
STARTPREIS / STARTING PRICE °€ 80
An Austrian graphic artist, illustrator, writer and publisher of the 20th century. Born in Vienna in 1927, he studied philosophy, German and English, was a secondary school teacher at the Hernalser Gymnasium, and worked as a printer and collector of prints under the pseudonym Hieronymus Zyx. As Hieronymus Zyx, he was active, amongst other things, within the circles of the Vienna Bibliophiles’ Society and the Edition Grafischer Zirkel, where his collection of prints and his love of satire found expression. After serving in the military from 1943 to 1945, he lived in Perchtoldsdorf from 1976 onwards and later in Eichgraben in the Vienna Woods, where he published works such as *Mond im kleinen Bären* (1979) and organised exhibitions in Lower Austria. Fitzbauer created satirical riddle poems and puns, drawings and prints featuring absurdly humorous, critically subverted motifs, often in colourful reading books and picture books in which wordplay, satire and absurdity are closely intertwined. Alongside motifs from the Vienna Woods and landscapes of the Danube, urban scenes and references to the Vienna Künstlerhaus feature repeatedly, so that his work oscillates between literary-graphic satire and landscape-based visual poetry. As an author, draughtsman and collector, he thus combined wordplay with a joy of visual storytelling; he is a recipient of the Lower Austria Culture Prize.
PLEASE NOTE:
The purchase price consists of the highest bid plus the buyer's premium, sales tax and, if applicable, the fee of artists resale rights and platform fee. In the case of normal taxation (marked ° at the estimate), a premium of 24% is added to the highest bid. The mandatory sales tax is added to the sum of the highest bid, the buyer's premium and platform fee. This amounts to 13% for paintings, drawings, graphic works and sculptures and 20% for photographs and all other items. The buyer's premium amounts to 28% in case of differential taxation. The sales tax is included in the differential taxation.
