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3468 HANS STAUDACHER(St. Urban/Carinthia 1923 - lives and works
in Vienna)
Roter Arier. 1991/92.
Oil on canvas.
Signed and dated upper left: Hans Stau-
dacher 1991/92 also titled: Roter Arier. On
the reverse signed and dated: Hans Stau-
dacher 1990/91 and inscribed: Blaues.
196.5 x 166.5 cm.
Provenance:
- Galerie Contact, Vienna.
- Purchased in 1994 from the above by
the present owner, since then private
collection Switzerland.
Hans Staudacher was born in 1923 in St.
Urban, Carinthia, where he grew up and
came to painting as an autodidact. In 1950
he moved to Vienna, where he explored
the work of Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele
amongst others and joined the Vienna
Secession. There were repeated stays in
Paris, where he engaged with the work of
Georges Mathieu and his combination of
script and image. From the beginning of
the 1960s, his painting became increa-
singly abstract. His works were strongly
imbued with Art Informel and Abstract
Expressionism. He represented Austria in
the Venice Biennale of 1956 and received
the top prize at the Tokyo Biennale in 1965.
The work presented here also shows the
influence of Georges Mathieu and his
examination of abstract, gestural painting
and script.
CHF 18 000 / 24 000
(€ 16 670 / 22 220)