Victor Bauer, Reclining Nude, 1932, Pencil & Watercolor & Paper, Framed

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Victor bauer

1902 vienna – 1959 nice

reclining nude

signed and dated lower right (1932)

mixed media (gouache and pencil) … Read more Victor bauer

1902 vienna – 1959 nice

reclining nude

signed and dated lower right (1932)

mixed media (gouache and pencil) on thin paper, mounted in a passe-partout with small adhesive strips at the upper corners on the reverse, framed

size: 15.9 x 27 cm (sheet) or 44.8 x 55 cm (passe-partout) or 57.3 x 67.5 cm (frame)

provenance: small label on the reverse of the frame: "frame & picture / esther klinghammer / cologne"

this reclining nude, dated 1932, belongs to the very early period of victor bauer's work and is therefore a rare example of his art from that time.

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victor bauer

painter, draftsman, printmaker, restorer.

1912 moved to munich and attended the gymnasium (grammar school).

1918/19 actively participated in the munich soviet republic; after its suppression, briefly imprisoned in stadelheim prison and expelled from germany in 1920.

1920 returned to vienna, completed his schooling in vienna and graz.

1922 attended the university of vienna (medicine) and the vienna academy of fine arts.

1923 stayed in the soviet union.

1926 a competition in paris led to a three-month study trip to greece.

during this time, he had an exhibition at the kyriakos gallery (athens).
returned to vienna; taught anatomical drawing at the academy of fine arts.
acquainted with, among others, sigmund freud, karl kraus, adolf loose, and wilhelm reich.

1927 moved to berlin, befriended magnus hirschfeld. Study trip to paris.

1929 first exhibition in vienna at the holbein gallery. Another trip to paris, where he came into close contact with the surrealist movement and began friendships with, among others, andré breton, paul edward, and salvador dalí. Bauer contributed to the second surrealist manifesto.

1931: literary activities, including contributions to "simplicissimus."

1932: moved to paris.

1932/33: trips to italy (restoration work at the uffizi gallery in florence).

1936: moved to nice.

1937: together with wilhelm reich, he processed the literary estate of magnus hirschfeld.

1941: joined the italian resistance.

1943: arrested by the italian political police, ovra (san vittore prison in milan), and sentenced to death (the sentence was not carried out due to mussolini's fall).

1944: freed from prison and a member of garibaldi's troops. Awarded by general alexander.

1945 return to nice

1946 selection and restoration of ex-votos from the 17th-19th centuries; these were exhibited in 1947 at the galerie savoy (nice).

only from this time onward was bauer able to pursue continuous artistic work.

1948 acquaintance with arthur adamov and antonin artraud.

1949 acquaintance with frans masereel.

marriage in 1950

collections:
würth collection, künzelsau

solo exhibitions:

1926 athens, kyriakos gallery

1929 vienna, holbein gallery

1937 nice, palais de la méditerranée

1942 nice, diam décoration

1942, 1948, 1951 nice, muratore gallery

1949, 1951 paris, mirador gallery

1950 nice, di segni gallery

1955 nice, hôtel negresco

1956, 1958 cagnes-sur-mer, galerie des arts

1957, 1958 marseille, studio da silva

1958 clermont-ferrand, galerie a

1963 saint-paul-de-vence, galerie "la vieille échoppe"

regularly in cologne from 1975-86, galerie dreiseitel

1977 munich, galerie von abercron

1992, 2006 salzburg, galerie welz this piece has an attribution mark,
i am sure that it is completely authentic and take full responsibility for any authenticity
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