GEORG EHRLICH* (Vienna 1897 - 1966 Lucerne)
Study of children, 1942
red chalk/paper, 46,5 x 28 cm
signed Georg Ehrlich, dated 1942

ESTIMATE °€ 200 - 400
STARTING PRICE °€ 200

Austrian painter and sculptor of the 20th century. Main representative of Expressionism. Representative of exile art. Came from a Jewish family. Studied from 1913 to 1914 at the Vienna School of Applied Arts with Anton von Kenner and Oskar Strnad. 1920 to 1922 in Munich and until 1924 in Berlin. Contract with Paul Cassirer, acquaintance with Oskar Kokoschka, Paul Klee and Max Beckmann. In Vienna patrons Hans Tietze and Erika Tietze-Conrat. From 1925 to 1928 member of the artists' association Hagenbund. From 1932 with his wife part of the Zinkenbach painters' colony on Lake Wolfgang, as were Ferdinand Kitt, Josed Dobrowsky, Ernst Huber, Ludwig Heinrich Jungnickel, Oskar Laske, Georg Merkel, Louise Merkel-Romee, Lisel Salzer and others. 1937 Emigration to England. 1947 to 1949 teaches in the USA. Married to the artist Bettina Ehrlich-Bauer. Created portraits, landscapes, bronze sculptures and left behind a significant graphic and drawing oeuvre. Figure ideal influenced by George Minne and Wilhelm Lehmbruck. V.a. also illustrations of literature and poetry, such as the poem "Prayer to enter the kingdom of heaven with the donkeys" by Francis Jammes.

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