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EGON VITALIS BIEL* (1902 Vienna – 1969 Nashville) - EGON VITALIS BIEL* (1902 Vienna – 1969 Nashville) Raskolnikow, 1923 woodcut/paper, 41 x 27 cm signed Egon Biel, dated 1923, inscribed Dostojewski Raskolnikov ESTIMATE € 50 - 100 STARTING PRICE € 50 Egon Vitalis Biel-Bienne was a painter, illustrator and writer. He studied art history with Dworák and Strzygowski for four semesters, but was otherwise self-taught. Biel-Bienne had his studio on the Kohlmarkt, and he exhibited illustrations for Gogol and Puschkin in the Hagenbund; In 1936 he organized a collective exhibition in the glass house in the Burggarten (”Human Characters and Passions”), presenting himself as one of the most idiosyncratic of Vienna's younger painters. In 1938 Biel-Bienne emigrated to France and in 1942 to the USA; 1952 professor at Fordham University (New York), 1953-1959 director of the French-American Cultural Institute; from 1959 he taught at Vanderbilt University in Nashville. 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 °), a premium of 24% is added to the highest bid. The mandatory sales tax of 13%, for photographys 20%, is added to the sum of the highest bid and the buyer's premium. The buyer's premium amounts to 28% in case of differential taxation. The sales tax is included in the differential taxation.