Subasta Bidspirit | SEPP BIEHLER* (Konstanz 1907 -

SEPP BIEHLER* (Konstanz 1907 - 1973 Waldshut) - SEPP BIEHLER* (Konstanz 1907 - 1973 Waldshut) The small harbour, 1931 oil/cardboard, 50 x 70 cm monogrammed SB, dated 1931, listed in exhibition catalogue Sepp Biehler, Von der neuen Sachlichkeit zur figurativen Abstraktion, City Wessenberg-gallery Konstanz, Konstanz 2003, p. 111 ESTIMATE °€ 4000 - 6000 STARTING PRICE °€ 4000 The South-West German painter Sepp Biehler did an internship at the porcelain manufactory ”Alt-Konstanz” in 1923, after high school. From 1925 to 1928, he studied at the Baden State Art School in Karlsruhe, from 1926 with Ernst Wuertenberger. After that, study trips first exhibitions in southwest Germany. During World War II, military service, wounded and imprisoned. Then more trips and exhibitions. In 1955, Biehler stayed in Hamburg, and in 1957, he moved to Boxberg in Main-Tauber-Kreis (Main-Tauber District, Franconia, Baden-Wuerttemberg). Numerous public and church commissions in North Baden. In 1969, he moved to Bernau in the Black Forest. After orienting himself towards the New Objectivity from the late 1920s, Biehler soon became one of the better-known painters in southern German exhibitions. From the 1930s onwards, Biehler provided numerous private and public buildings in Constance and the surrounding area with decorative wall paintings and created various Stations of the Cross cycles. After the Second World War, Biehler increasingly oriented himself towards figurative abstraction, but retained the earlier themes: religious motifs, landscapes and figure paintings. His mosaics, sgraffiti and stone carvings characterize many a cityscape in Main-Tauber-Kreis. 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.