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WERNER KOCH* (Strassburg 1904 - 1961) - WERNER KOCH* (Strassburg 1904 - 1961) Playing girl, 1946 oil/canvas, 72 x 87 cm verso dated 26.3.1946 ESTIMATE °€ 2000 - 4000 STARTING PRICE °€ 2000 The German painter (portraits, still lifes and landscapes, in oil and in watercolour; drawings) and art teacher Werner Koch grew up mostly in Karlsruhe. He studied at the Landeskunstschule (later Kunstakademie) with Karl Hubbuch, where he also met his future wife Klara Schindler. He was also a drawing teacher there. As a drawing teacher candidate, he worked in Germsbach, Baden-Baden and Bretten, among other places. After the American captivity in 1945, Koch worked as an art teacher in Bretten and then at the Eichendorff-Gymnasium in Ettlingen until his death (1961). Koch had been married to Klara Schindler, daughter of Theodor Schindler, since 1942. From 1945, the couple lived in the Schindlerhaus in Malsch with their in-laws. 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.