Franz Sedlacek

(Austrian, 1891-1944)

Landschaft mit Jäger

, 1926

oil on board

initialed FS and dated (lower left); signed, dated, titled, and inscribed Wien (verso)

26 x 21 1/2 inches.

Property from the Estate of Jost Hermand, Madison, Wisconsin; Sold to Benefit the University of Wisconsin Foundation

Provenance:

The Artist's family, Bad Gastein, Austria, c. 1930

Galerie Hasfurther, Vienna, 1978-85

Sold: Wiener Secession und Galerie Hassfurther, Vienna, May 26, 1979, Lot 247

Sold: Hassfurther Auktionen, Vienna, March 31, 1984, Lot 117

Acquired at the above by the present owner

Exhibited:

Linz, Oberösterreichisches Landesmuseum, Landesgalerie, Neo-Romanticism and New Objectivity in Upper Austria, Christmas exhibition of the Upper Austrian State Museum, 1929, cat. no. 57

Linz, Wolfgang-Gurlitt-Museum, Neue Galerie der Stadt, Franz Sedlacek, 1952, cat. no. 6

Galerie Hassfurther, Vienna, 1978

Vienna, Weiner Secession und Galerie Hassfurther, Austrian Art 1880-1945, 1979

Literature:

Hermann Ubell, "Franz Sedlacek, the Neoromantic," Bilderwoche der Tagespost, 27, November, 1932, p. 1f

Elisabeth Hintner-Weinlich, The Painter and Graphic Artist Dr. Franz Sedlacek, PhD diss., Innsbruck, 1987, p. 226, no. 24

Elisabeth Hintner, Franz Sedlacek. Work and Life 1891-1945, 2. Vienna, 1990, p. 39, fig. 7

Gabriele Spindler and Andreas Strohhammer, Franz Sedlacek 1891-1945: Monografie mit Verzeichnis der Gemälde, Vienna, 2011, p. 163, WV 31, illus.

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