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Alfred Karger* (Romania 1925 - 1978 Vienna) Houses watercolor/paper 30 x 48,5 cm signed A. Karger SCHÄTZPREIS / ESTIMATE °€ 200 - 400 STARTPREIS / STARTING PRICE °€ 200 Austrian painter and graphic artist of the 20th century. Born on 16 January 1925 in Odorheiu Secuiesc (Romania, Transylvania) to Austrian parents, he contracted polio at an early age and fled with his family to Vienna in 1945 to escape the Red Army. studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna under Herbert Boeckl and Robin Christian Andersen from 1945 (graduating in 1953), married his colleague Annelise Karger, participated in exhibitions from 1948, became a member of the Vienna Secession (1950), and won prizes such as the Academy's State Prize (1953) and the City of Vienna Prize (1967). Karger created still lifes, landscapes, portraits and nude drawings with precise studies of nature influenced by Cézanne and Boeckl, in oil, watercolour and drawing; late mastery in watercolour with Viennese roof motifs from the window, mosaics with his wife Annelise for public buildings, distance from action art. Related artists and terms: Herbert Boeckl, Robin Christian Andersen, Annelise Karger, Paul Cézanne, Vienna Secession, Neumarkt Summer Academy, nature studies, Viennese rooftop silhouettes, Albertina Vienna, Belvedere, Rupertinum Salzburg 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. 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 and the buyer's premium. 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.