Philipp Papst Sold at Auction Prices

Philipp Papst (Romania,1915-?) oil painting

ARTIST: Philipp Papst (Romanian, 1915 - ???) TITLE: Mountain Village Scene MEDIUM: oil on canvas CONDITION: Unstretched (In-House stretching available). Overall good. No visible inpaint under UV light. ART SIZE: 16 x 24 inches / 40 x 60 cm FRAME SIZE: unframed (In-House framing available) SIGNATURE: lower right PROVENANCE: Arnot Gallery, NY (has stamp on verso) NAME VARIANTS: Filip Papst CATEGORY: old antique vintage painting for auction sale online AD: ART WANTED: Consign, Trade In, Cash Offer SKU#: 136199 US SHIPPING: $79 + insurance. BIOGRAPHY: Filip Papst was born in 1915 and was primarily influenced by the 1930s growing up. The period of the 1930s is characterised by the clashing of many political ideologies, including Marxist Socialism, Capitalist Democracy, and the Totalitarianism of both Communism and Fascism. Surrealism continued to dominate in Europe, and had influence internationally. Artists such as Frida Kahlo and Diego Riviera in Mexico, worked to incorporate the ideas posed by Surrealism into their radical political philosophies, developing a new kind of magic realism. Artistic output in the United States was heavily impacted at the time by the Great Depression, and a number of artists took to focusing on ideas of modesty and the ordinary man. For the first time in US history, artists began to explore into political subjects and endeavoured to use their art to impact society. Topics including poverty, lack of affordable housing, anti-lynching, anti-fascism, and workers' strikes were predominant in many artists' work. In the Soviet Union, Stalin's government required urgent funds to implement the rapid industrialisation demanded by the first Five Year Plan. It initiated a secret proposal to sell off treasures from the State Hermitage Museum in Leningrad (St. Petersburg), including a primary list of two hundred and fifty rare paintings by the Old Masters, a number of which found their way to the collection of Andrew Mellon via the New York based art dealing company, Knoedler. The decade took a sinister turn with the birth of National Socialism in Germany, followed by Adolf Hitler's rise to power in 1933. By the end of the 1930s, the Second World War had begun; which preoccupied both artists and the global population.