ARTUR NIKODEM (Trient 1870 - 1940 Innsbruck)
Istanbul, 1917
mixed media/paper, 29 x 30,8 cm
signed A. Nikodem, dated 1917

ESTIMATE € 1600 - 2600
STARTING PRICE € 1600

After attending school in Innsbruck, Artur Nikodem went to Munich against his parents' will to study painting and, after studying with Defregger and Kaulbach, to Milan and Florence. In 1893 he moved to Merano, where he lived until 1908, when he returned to Innsbruck with his family. From 1920, when Nikodem, who had worked in the state postal service, retired early, he was able to devote himself entirely to painting. In the 1920s he had successful exhibitions at home and abroad, but during the Nazi era he was excluded from various artists' associations and many of his works were confiscated as degenerate art and partially destroyed. From the time of the Second World War until his death in 1940, Artur Nikodem only practiced his art privately and without any exhibition opportunities. Artur Nikodem also worked as a photographer and left behind a large photographic work with oriental motifs from his time as k. and k. Telegraph officer from 1916 to 1918 and photographs of his partners. His paintings are characterized by depictions of Tyrolean landscapes.

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