HERBERT GURSCHNER (Innsbruck 1901 - 1975 London), Flamingos, 1938

HERBERT GURSCHNER*
(Innsbruck 1901 - 1975 London)
Flamingos, 1938
oil/canvas, 105,3 x 191,7 cm
signed Gurschner and dated 1938
verso inscribed This is the property of Ida McCulloch. MV Wooley-Hart
exhibited at Cooling galleries London 1938 and at gallery Vivienne New York 1946
Provenance: gallery Vivienne Wooley-Hart New York, private collection USA, private collection Vienna

ESTIMATE °€ 15.000 - 30.000
START € 12.000

Austrian painter and stage designer of the 20th century especially the interwar period. Representatives of Tyrolean modernism such as Artur Nikodem, Ernst Nepo, Wilhelm N. Prachensky, Hans Tyrol-Weber, etc. Stylistic development between Expressionism and New Objectivity. Nephew of the sculptors Emil and Gustav Gurschner. Attended the School of Applied Arts in Innsbruck and studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich from 1918 to 1920. In 1920 he lived in Mühlau in Innsbruck, exhibited with the Mühlau Circle around Alfons Schnegg, Rudolf Lehnert and Ernst Nepo. Early 1920s landscapes and cityscapes from travels through Tyrol, Salzburg and Italy. 1924 Married the English noblewoman Dolores Cherwadsky-Damarkow, established contacts with London artist and collector circles. 1929 first exhibition at the London Fine Art Society. Contacts with aristocratic, diplomatic and business circles, exhibitions in London and New York. Married his second wife Brenda Davidoff. In addition to landscapes and portraits, also created commissioned works such as this large-scale depiction of animals with flamingos and dragonflies, comparable to the animal friezes by Ludwig Heinrich Jungnickel.

Gurschner's talent for painting became apparent at an early age. In 1918 he was accepted as the youngest student at the Academy in Munich. From 1920 he lived in the Mühlau district of Innsbruck and exhibited together with the other artists of the "Mühlau Circle", Nepo, Schnegg and Lehnert. From 1925 onwards he travelled extensively in Italy, Spain and France, exhibited at the Venice Biennale and had an acclaimed solo show at the London Fine Art Society in 1929. In 1931, the Tate Gallery purchased his "Annunciation". Gurschner lived from numerous portrait commissions and thus moved in aristocratic, diplomatic and business circles. In 1938 he went into exile in London, where he met his second wife Brenda. After the war, Gurschner turned to stage design and worked for Covent Garden Opera, the Globe and Hammersmith Theatre.

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