WILLY EISENSCHITZ*
(Vienna 1889 - 1974 Paris)
Reed on the pond, 1967
pastel and gouache/paper, 33 x 45.8 cm
Stamp Atelier Willy Eisenschitz
verso inscribed "Les Roseaux sur l'Etang" - L'Spiglette
provenance: private collection Vienna

ESTIMATE € 1.200 - 2.500
STARTING PRICE € 1.200

Austrian-French painter of the 20th century. Came from a Jewish family and began to study painting at the Academy in Vienna in 1911. Went to Paris to the Academie de la Grande Chaumière in 1912. Acquaintance with the painter Claire Bertrand, marriage before the start of the First World War. Interned during the war and released at the end of the war. 1921 first stay in the south of France, change of his artistic work under the impression of southern light. Always suffered from health problems, stays in the climatic health resort Dieulefît. Moving to La Valette-Du-Var near Toulon. Member of the Societé Nationale des Beaux Arts, exhibited in the Salon d’Automnes in Paris, also in the Durand-Ruel gallery and in the Museum in Toulon. Maintained contacts in Paris with Josef Floch, Viktor Tischler, Georg Merkel and Walter Bondy. During the Second World War withdrawal to Dieulefît, his works signed with the pseudonym Villiers. From 1951 also trips to Ibiza, lived alternately in Paris and in Provence. After the death of his wife in 1969 return to Paris. Created oil paintings and watercolors with landscapes and cityscapes, shaped by nature and light south of France.

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