FRANZ VON BAYROS (Zagreb 1866 - 1924 Vienna)
Bundle of 6 erotica prints

Ring tossing
aquatint/paper, 22,5 x 21,5 cm
signed F. Bayros

The painter
aquatint/paper, 18 x 17 cm
inscribed "Oh! DU-U-U!!" -Die Malerin-

Firefly
aquatint/paper, 18 x 17 cm
titled "Gluehwuermchen"

The five senses
aquatint/paper, 18,5 x 17 cm
inscribed Die fuenf Sinne. "Das Gesicht" (the five senses. "The face")

Kristie
aquatint/paper, 23 x 21,5 cm

The Sword
aquatint/paper, 22,4 x 21,5 cm

ESTIMATE € 600 - 1000
STARTING PRICE € 600

Franz von Bayros, also known as Marquis de Bayros, was an Austrian graphic artist, illustrator and painter of the fin de siecle. He also published his works under the pseudonym Choisy Le Conin. Bayros is best known as a draftsman and illustrator of erotic motifs set in the Rococo period. He came from a noble family that left Spain and settled in Austria. Bayros studied at the Academy of Fine Arts with Christian Griepenkerl and August Eisenmenger and stayed regularly in Munich. From 1890 he worked with the portraitist Eugen Felix and the landscape painter Gottfried Seelos. He moved in high circles and belonged to the circle of friends of Johann Strauss, whose stepdaughter Alice he married in 1896. The marriage ended in 1897 and Bayros moved to Munich. He studied at Adolf Hoelzel's special school in Dachau and at Heinrich Knirr's school in Munich. He became involved in artistic circles and was a member of the “Vornehme Beobachter” society, which also included Thilo von Seebach, Karl Georg Maassen and Hanns Floerke. In 1904 he had his first major exhibition in Munich and subsequently took on a large number of commissions for book illustrations and bookplates. He created studies on Louis XV, studied the Rococo period and established himself as a draftsman of erotic motifs. When censorship intervened, he had to leave Munich in 1911. In Vienna he found it difficult to connect to the art market, even though he was in the circle of Rudolf Hans Bartsch, Anton Wildgans and Hugo Markus Ganz. His plans to go to Italy were interrupted by the outbreak of the First World War. On the occasion of the 600th anniversary of Dante's death, he created a collection of 60 watercolors based on the Divine Comedy, which finally brought him success in Vienna.

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