WILHELM NICOLAUS PRACHENSKY*
(Innsbruch 1898 - 1956 Innsbruck)
Hay Harvest, 1919
oil/cardboard, 35,7 x 57,3 cm
monogrammed WP and dated 1919
Provenance: private austria Lower Austria, Wienerroither and Kohlbacher Vienna, private collection Austria
ESTIMATE °€ 9.000 - 14.000
START € 9.000
Austrian painter, graphic artist and architect of the 20th century especially of the interwar period. Main representative of modernism in Tyrol, representative of the New Objectivity. Came from a family of artists, his brother Theodor Prachensky was a painter and architect, his nephew Hubert Prachensky an architect and his son Markus Prachensky an important representative of Informel and abstract painting. Attended the Staatsgewerbeschule in Innsbruck, studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich with Angelo Jank from 1918 to 1921. Worked as a painter and very successful in poster art. Also designed buildings, furniture and interiors for hotels and cinemas. In the field of architecture and tourism, collaborated with Clemens Holzmeister, Lois Welzenbacher and Franz Baumann. 1925 Founded the artist group Die Waage together with Leo Sebastian Humer, Ernst Nepo, Hans Andre, Franz Santifaller, Alfons Schnegg and Rudolf Wacker. In addition to poster designs, mainly cityscapes, townscapes and landscapes, partly with motifs of peasant work and rural everyday life.
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