Hermann Serient Paintings & Artwork for Sale | Hermann Serient Art Value Price Guide

May. 28, 2024
HERMANN SERIENT* (born 1935 in Melk)
Est: €300 - €600
HERMANN SERIENT* (born 1935 in Melk) Restricted area, 1980 oil and egg tempera/copper plate, 22,5 x 20 cm verso signed and dated Serient 1980 entitled Sperrgebiet Ikone ESTIMATE € 300 - 600 STARTING PRICE € 300 Austrian artist of the 20th century. Lives and works in Vienna and southern Burgenland. Completed an apprenticeship as a goldsmith, lived in Vienna in the 1960s as an artist, cartoonist for the Wiener Arbeiterzeitung and jazz musician, and raveled through Europe by car stop. He experimented with homemade instruments, took photographs and made animated films for the ORF. From the 1970s, as a forerunner of the green movement, social and environmental themes in his work. Works in old master technique like the representatives of Magic Realism and the Viennese School of Fantastic Realism Ernst Fuchs, Arik Brauer, Rudolf Hausner and Wolfgang Hutter. Interest in works by Hieronymus Bosch and Pieter Breughel. Grotesque, enigmatic, fairy-tale and mystical elements as in Surrealism. Themes and motifs always related to the present, social criticism and pointing out environmental destruction. Also comic and humorous elements as in the depictions of the vampire. Luminosity of colors by mixing the pigments, oil paints and egg tempera. 2005 and 2015 exhibitions at the Landesgalerie Burgenland in Eisenstadt. PLEASE NOTE: The purchase price consists of the highest bid plus the buyer's premium, sales tax and, if applicable, the fee of artists resale rights. In the case of normal taxation (marked °), a premium of 24% is added to the highest bid. The mandatory sales tax of 13%, for photographs 20%, is added to the sum of the highest bid and the buyer's premium. The buyer's premium amounts to 28% in case of differential taxation. The sales tax is included in the differential taxation.
Widder Auctions
May. 28, 2024
HERMANN SERIENT* (born 1935 in Melk)
Est: €200 - €400
HERMANN SERIENT* (born 1935 in Melk) At Erdberg, 1998 watercolor and indian ink/paper, 29,6 x 20,3 cm signed Serient, dated 1998 entitled in Erdberg, 1030 Wien, verso, signed Serient ESTIMATE °€ 200 - 400 STARTING PRICE °€ 200 Austrian artist of the 20th century. Lives and works in Vienna and southern Burgenland. Completed an apprenticeship as a goldsmith, lived in Vienna in the 1960s as an artist, cartoonist for the Wiener Arbeiterzeitung and jazz musician, and raveled through Europe by car stop. He experimented with homemade instruments, took photographs and made animated films for the ORF. From the 1970s, as a forerunner of the green movement, social and environmental themes in his work. Works in old master technique like the representatives of Magic Realism and the Viennese School of Fantastic Realism Ernst Fuchs, Arik Brauer, Rudolf Hausner and Wolfgang Hutter. Interest in works by Hieronymus Bosch and Pieter Breughel. Grotesque, enigmatic, fairy-tale and mystical elements as in Surrealism. Themes and motifs always related to the present, social criticism and pointing out environmental destruction. Also comic and humorous elements as in the depictions of the vampire. Luminosity of colors by mixing the pigments, oil paints and egg tempera. 2005 and 2015 exhibitions at the Landesgalerie Burgenland in Eisenstadt. PLEASE NOTE: The purchase price consists of the highest bid plus the buyer's premium, sales tax and, if applicable, the fee of artists resale rights. In the case of normal taxation (marked °), a premium of 24% is added to the highest bid. The mandatory sales tax of 13%, for photographs 20%, is added to the sum of the highest bid and the buyer's premium. The buyer's premium amounts to 28% in case of differential taxation. The sales tax is included in the differential taxation.
Widder Auctions
Feb. 01, 2024
Social Event
Est: €120 - €180
woodcut signed lower right, numbered lower left; 22/30 sheet size: 16,9 x 12 in , plate size: 5,5 x 5,5 in
Lehner Kunstauktionen
Nov. 23, 2023
HERMANN SERIENT* (born 1935 in Melk)
Est: €600 - €1,200
HERMANN SERIENT* (born 1935 in Melk) Autumn mood, 1959 egg tempera/paper, 19,5 x 29,5 cm signed Serient, dated 1959 ESTIMATE °€ 600 - 1200 STARTING PRICE °€ 600 Austrian artist of the 20th century. Lives and works in Vienna and southern Burgenland. Completed an apprenticeship as a goldsmith, lived in Vienna in the 1960s as an artist, cartoonist for the Wiener Arbeiterzeitung and jazz musician, and raveled through Europe by car stop. He experimented with homemade instruments, took photographs and made animated films for the ORF. From the 1970s, as a forerunner of the green movement, social and environmental themes in his work. Works in old master technique like the representatives of Magic Realism and the Viennese School of Fantastic Realism Ernst Fuchs, Arik Brauer, Rudolf Hausner and Wolfgang Hutter. Interest in works by Hieronymus Bosch and Pieter Breughel. Grotesque, enigmatic, fairy-tale and mystical elements as in Surrealism. Themes and motifs always related to the present, social criticism and pointing out environmental destruction. Also comic and humorous elements as in the depictions of the vampire. Luminosity of colors by mixing the pigments, oil paints and egg tempera. 2005 and 2015 exhibitions at the Landesgalerie Burgenland in Eisenstadt. PLEASE NOTE: The purchase price consists of the highest bid plus the buyer's premium, sales tax and, if applicable, the fee of artists resale rights. In the case of normal taxation (marked °), a premium of 24% is added to the highest bid. The mandatory sales tax of 13%, for photographys 20%, is added to the sum of the highest bid and the buyer's premium. The buyer's premium amounts to 28% in case of differential taxation. The sales tax is included in the differential taxation.
Widder Auctions
Nov. 23, 2023
HERMANN SERIENT* (born 1935 in Melk)
Est: €2,000 - €4,000
HERMANN SERIENT* (born 1935 in Melk) The guardian oil/wood, 17 x 29,8 cm signed Serient verso signed and dated Serient 1993, titled Der Waechter ESTIMATE € 2000 - 4000 STARTING PRICE € 2000 Austrian artist of the 20th century. Lives and works in Vienna and southern Burgenland. Completed an apprenticeship as a goldsmith, lived in Vienna in the 1960s as an artist, cartoonist for the Wiener Arbeiterzeitung and jazz musician, and raveled through Europe by car stop. He experimented with homemade instruments, took photographs and made animated films for the ORF. From the 1970s, as a forerunner of the green movement, social and environmental themes in his work. Works in old master technique like the representatives of Magic Realism and the Viennese School of Fantastic Realism Ernst Fuchs, Arik Brauer, Rudolf Hausner and Wolfgang Hutter. Interest in works by Hieronymus Bosch and Pieter Breughel. Grotesque, enigmatic, fairy-tale and mystical elements as in Surrealism. Themes and motifs always related to the present, social criticism and pointing out environmental destruction. Also comic and humorous elements as in the depictions of the vampire. Luminosity of colors by mixing the pigments, oil paints and egg tempera. 2005 and 2015 exhibitions at the Landesgalerie Burgenland in Eisenstadt. PLEASE NOTE: The purchase price consists of the highest bid plus the buyer's premium, sales tax and, if applicable, the fee of artists resale rights. In the case of normal taxation (marked °), a premium of 24% is added to the highest bid. The mandatory sales tax of 13%, for photographys 20%, is added to the sum of the highest bid and the buyer's premium. The buyer's premium amounts to 28% in case of differential taxation. The sales tax is included in the differential taxation.
Widder Auctions
Nov. 23, 2023
HERMANN SERIENT* (born 1935 in Melk)
Est: €500 - €1,000
HERMANN SERIENT* (born 1935 in Melk) Southern Burgenland oil/board, 15 x 25,5 cm signed Serient verso signed Serient and entitled Sued.bgld., dated and inscribed 2.7.94 Susanne + Matthias ESTIMATE € 500 - 1000 STARTING PRICE € 500 Austrian artist of the 20th century. Lives and works in Vienna and southern Burgenland. Completed an apprenticeship as a goldsmith, lived in Vienna in the 1960s as an artist, cartoonist for the Wiener Arbeiterzeitung and jazz musician, and raveled through Europe by car stop. He experimented with homemade instruments, took photographs and made animated films for the ORF. From the 1970s, as a forerunner of the green movement, social and environmental themes in his work. Works in old master technique like the representatives of Magic Realism and the Viennese School of Fantastic Realism Ernst Fuchs, Arik Brauer, Rudolf Hausner and Wolfgang Hutter. Interest in works by Hieronymus Bosch and Pieter Breughel. Grotesque, enigmatic, fairy-tale and mystical elements as in Surrealism. Themes and motifs always related to the present, social criticism and pointing out environmental destruction. Also comic and humorous elements as in the depictions of the vampire. Luminosity of colors by mixing the pigments, oil paints and egg tempera. 2005 and 2015 exhibitions at the Landesgalerie Burgenland in Eisenstadt. PLEASE NOTE: The purchase price consists of the highest bid plus the buyer's premium, sales tax and, if applicable, the fee of artists resale rights. In the case of normal taxation (marked °), a premium of 24% is added to the highest bid. The mandatory sales tax of 13%, for photographys 20%, is added to the sum of the highest bid and the buyer's premium. The buyer's premium amounts to 28% in case of differential taxation. The sales tax is included in the differential taxation.
Widder Auctions
Nov. 23, 2023
HERMANN SERIENT* (born 1935 in Melk)
Est: €7,000 - €14,000
HERMANN SERIENT* (born 1935 in Melk) Between night and day, 1975 oil/board, 66,5 x 90,7 cm signed Serient, dated 1975 verso signiert and dated Serient 1975 ESTIMATE € 7000 - 14000 STARTING PRICE € 7000 Austrian artist of the 20th century. Lives and works in Vienna and southern Burgenland. Completed an apprenticeship as a goldsmith, lived in Vienna in the 1960s as an artist, cartoonist for the Wiener Arbeiterzeitung and jazz musician, and raveled through Europe by car stop. He experimented with homemade instruments, took photographs and made animated films for the ORF. From the 1970s, as a forerunner of the green movement, social and environmental themes in his work. Works in old master technique like the representatives of Magic Realism and the Viennese School of Fantastic Realism Ernst Fuchs, Arik Brauer, Rudolf Hausner and Wolfgang Hutter. Interest in works by Hieronymus Bosch and Pieter Breughel. Grotesque, enigmatic, fairy-tale and mystical elements as in Surrealism. Themes and motifs always related to the present, social criticism and pointing out environmental destruction. Also comic and humorous elements as in the depictions of the vampire. Luminosity of colors by mixing the pigments, oil paints and egg tempera. 2005 and 2015 exhibitions at the Landesgalerie Burgenland in Eisenstadt. PLEASE NOTE: The purchase price consists of the highest bid plus the buyer's premium, sales tax and, if applicable, the fee of artists resale rights. In the case of normal taxation (marked °), a premium of 24% is added to the highest bid. The mandatory sales tax of 13%, for photographys 20%, is added to the sum of the highest bid and the buyer's premium. The buyer's premium amounts to 28% in case of differential taxation. The sales tax is included in the differential taxation.
Widder Auctions
Nov. 09, 2023
Hermann Serient (Melk 1935) - Die Hendlmarie, 1966
Est: €1,000 - €1,500
mixed media on masonite 26 x 33.5 cm Signed lower right: Serient, 1966 PROVENANCE Vienna, galerie Peithner Lichtenfelds (label on the reverse)
Finarte
May. 22, 2023
HERMANN SERIENT* (Melk 1935)
Est: €2,600 - €3,600
HERMANN SERIENT* (Melk 1935) Encounter, 2020 oil and egg tempera/plate, 29,8 x 23,8 cm signed Serient, dated 2020, verso inscribed Begegnung oel Eitempera 2020 ESTIMATE € 2600 - 3600 STARTING PRICE € 2600 Hermann Serient is a contemporary Austrian artist. He lives and works in Vienna and southern Burgenland. Serialt completed an apprenticeship as a goldsmith, lived in Vienna in the 1960s as an artist, caricaturist for the Wiener Arbeiterzeitung and jazz musician, and hitchhiked through Europe. He experimented with self-made instruments, took photos and made cartoons for ORF. From the 1970s, as a forerunner of the green movement, he took up social and environmental issues in his work. Like the representatives of Magical Realism and the Viennese School of Fantastic Realism, Ernst Fuchs, Arik Brauer, Rudolf Hausner, Anton Lehmden and Wolfgang Hutter, Serialn works in the painting technique of the old masters. He deals with the works of Hieronymus Bosch and Pieter Breughel. His motifs always relate to the present, are socially critical and show abuses such as environmental pollution and climate change. Grotesque, enigmatic, fairytale and mystical creatures and elements from surrealism populate his pictures. His work has already been recognized twice with exhibitions in the Landesgalerie Burgenland in Eisenstadt. PLEASE NOTE: The purchase price consists of the highest bid plus the buyer's premium, sales tax and, if applicable, the fee of artists resale rights. In the case of normal taxation (marked °), a premium of 24% is added to the highest bid. The mandatory sales tax of 13%, for photographys 20%, is added to the sum of the highest bid and the buyer's premium. The buyer's premium amounts to 28% in case of differential taxation. The sales tax is included in the differential taxation.
Widder Auctions
Apr. 19, 2023
Hermann Serient: The expert
Est: €3,000 - €6,000
Hermann Serient The expert 2004 oil on canvas; framed 24 x 18 cm signed and dated on the lower left: Serient 04 signed and dated on the reverse: Serient, 2004 private property, Austria
Im Kinsky
Apr. 19, 2023
Hermann Serient: "Im Extrazimmer"
Est: €1,500 - €3,000
Hermann Serient "Im Extrazimmer" 1981 mixed media on paper; framed 30 x 21 cm inscribed, signed and dated: Im Extrazimmer, Serient, 1981 private property, Austria
Im Kinsky
Apr. 19, 2023
Hermann Serient: "Detektor"
Est: €3,000 - €6,000
Hermann Serient "Detektor" 2004 oil on panel; framed 37 x 30 cm signed on the lower left: Serient signed, dated and inscribed on the reverse: Serient, 2004, Detektor private property, Austria
Im Kinsky
Nov. 28, 2022
HERMANN SERIENT* (born in Melk in 1935)
Est: €2,000 - €4,000
HERMANN SERIENT* (born in Melk in 1935) City of the future, 1967 oil/wood, 30.3 x 24.7 cm signed Serient, inscribed Wir sind so klug und dennoch spukts im Tegel provenance: acquired from the artist, private collection Vienna ESTIMATE °€ 2.000 - 4.000 STARTING PRICE °€ 2.000 Austrian artist of the 20th century. Lives and works in Vienna and southern Burgenland. Completed an apprenticeship as a goldsmith, lived in Vienna in the 1960s as an artist, cartoonist for the Wiener Arbeiterzeitung and jazz musician, and raveled through Europe by car stop. He experimented with homemade instruments, took photographs and made animated films for the ORF. From the 1970s, as a forerunner of the green movement, social and environmental themes in his work. Works in old master technique like the representatives of Magic Realism and the Viennese School of Fantastic Realism Ernst Fuchs, Arik Brauer, Rudolf Hausner and Wolfgang Hutter. Interest in works by Hieronymus Bosch and Pieter Breughel. Grotesque, enigmatic, fairy-tale and mystical elements as in Surrealism. Themes and motifs always related to the present, social criticism and pointing out environmental destruction. Also comic and humorous elements as in the depictions of the vampire. Luminosity of colors by mixing the pigments, oil paints and egg tempera. 2005 and 2015 exhibitions at the Landesgalerie Burgenland in Eisenstadt. PLEASE NOTE: The purchase price consists of the highest bid plus the buyer's premium, sales tax and, if applicable, the fee of artists resale rights. In the case of normal taxation (marked °), a premium of 24% is added to the highest bid. The mandatory sales tax of 13%, for photographys 20%, is added to the sum of the highest bid and the buyer's premium. The buyer's premium amounts to 28% in case of differential taxation. The sales tax is included in the differential taxation.
Widder Auctions
May. 19, 2022
HERMANN SERIENT (born 1935 in Melk)
Est: €1,500 - €2,000
HERMANN SERIENT* (born 1935 in Melk) Summer's Evening, 1986 tempera/paper, 47 x 64,5 cm signed Serient, dated 1986 and inscribed S-Abend im Süd-Bgld. Provenance: private property Vienna ESTIMATE °€ 1.500 - 2.000 Austrian artist of the 20th century. Lives and works in Vienna and southern Burgenland. Completed an apprenticeship as a goldsmith, lived in Vienna in the 1960s as an artist, cartoonist for the Wiener Arbeiterzeitung and jazz musician, and traveled through Europe by car stop. He experimented with homemade instruments, took photographs and made animated films for the ORF. From the 1970s, as a forerunner of the green movement, social and environmental themes in his work. Works in old master technique like the representatives of Magic Realism and the Viennese School of Fantastic Realism Ernst Fuchs, Arik Brauer, Rudolf Hausner and Wolfgang Hutter. Interest in works by Hieronymus Bosch and Pieter Breughel. Grotesque, enigmatic, fairy-tale and mystical elements as in Surrealism. Themes and motifs always related to the present, social criticism and pointing out environmental destruction. Also comic and humorous elements as in the depictions of the vampire, flying witches and fantasy creatures. Luminosity of colors by mixing the pigments, oil paints and egg tempera. 2005 and 2015 exhibitions at the Landesgalerie Burgenland in Eisenstadt. When Hermann Serient, a young goldsmith and jazz musician from Melk, hitchhiked in the 1950s, financed by engagements as a trombonist and drummer, to see the art of the "old masters" up close in Europe's museums, he was particularly interested for the painting of Hieronymus Bosch or Bruegel, for the handling of the material by Dutch Renaissance painters. Like these, Seriet always uses his own paints, which he does not mix on the palette but applies to the picture support, preferably wood, in many thin layers until he achieves the desired color tone. In 1965, Serient moved to the south of Burgenland, where he completely relocated his life for a few years and where he still lives today. The archaic and hermetic world that he found in the villages of the "Heanzen" appeared to the city dweller Serient as completely new and incomprehensible; however, he quickly made friends personally. The fascination he felt in view of the primitive building forms, the different way of speaking and clothing in every village and last but not least the traditional festivals and rituals, which must have seemed mysterious and bizarre to the outsider, became a main source of inspiration for the artist and also found outside of his famous Heanzen -cycle their precipitation. Originally characterized by caricature and influenced by the expressionism of George Grosz or Alfred Kubin, the densely populated sceneries now showed clear parallels to his new role models Bosch and Bruegel. He was often pigeonholed with the Viennese artists of Fantastic Realism, which Serialt has always rejected. For him, art only has value if it has content and doesn't lose itself in random whimsicality. Thus, series not only took sides for the declining, independent culture of the Heanzen, but increasingly dealt with environmental issues and other political issues. PLEASE NOTE: The purchase price consists of the highest bid plus the buyer's premium, sales tax and, if applicable, the fee of artists resale rights. In the case of normal taxation (marked ° in the catalog), a premium of 24% is added to the highest bid. The mandatory sales tax of 13% is added to the sum of the highest bid and the buyer's premium. The buyer's premium amounts to 28% in case of differential taxation. The sales tax is included in the differential taxation.
Widder Auctions
May. 19, 2022
HERMANN SERIENT (born 1935 in Melk)
Est: €1,500 - €2,000
HERMANN SERIENT* (born 1935 in Melk) At Stremtal Valley, 1995 tempera/paper, 47,5 x 64,5 cm signed Serient verso signed and dated Serient 1995 Provenance: private property Vienna ESTIMATE °€ 1.500 - 2.000 Austrian artist of the 20th century. Lives and works in Vienna and southern Burgenland. Completed an apprenticeship as a goldsmith, lived in Vienna in the 1960s as an artist, cartoonist for the Wiener Arbeiterzeitung and jazz musician, and traveled through Europe by car stop. He experimented with homemade instruments, took photographs and made animated films for the ORF. From the 1970s, as a forerunner of the green movement, social and environmental themes in his work. Works in old master technique like the representatives of Magic Realism and the Viennese School of Fantastic Realism Ernst Fuchs, Arik Brauer, Rudolf Hausner and Wolfgang Hutter. Interest in works by Hieronymus Bosch and Pieter Breughel. Grotesque, enigmatic, fairy-tale and mystical elements as in Surrealism. Themes and motifs always related to the present, social criticism and pointing out environmental destruction. Also comic and humorous elements as in the depictions of the vampire, flying witches and fantasy creatures. Luminosity of colors by mixing the pigments, oil paints and egg tempera. 2005 and 2015 exhibitions at the Landesgalerie Burgenland in Eisenstadt. When Hermann Serient, a young goldsmith and jazz musician from Melk, hitchhiked in the 1950s, financed by engagements as a trombonist and drummer, to see the art of the "old masters" up close in Europe's museums, he was particularly interested for the painting of Hieronymus Bosch or Bruegel, for the handling of the material by Dutch Renaissance painters. Like these, Seriet always uses his own paints, which he does not mix on the palette but applies to the picture support, preferably wood, in many thin layers until he achieves the desired color tone. In 1965, Serient moved to the south of Burgenland, where he completely relocated his life for a few years and where he still lives today. The archaic and hermetic world that he found in the villages of the "Heanzen" appeared to the city dweller Serient as completely new and incomprehensible; however, he quickly made friends personally. The fascination he felt in view of the primitive building forms, the different way of speaking and clothing in every village and last but not least the traditional festivals and rituals, which must have seemed mysterious and bizarre to the outsider, became a main source of inspiration for the artist and also found outside of his famous Heanzen -cycle their precipitation. Originally characterized by caricature and influenced by the expressionism of George Grosz or Alfred Kubin, the densely populated sceneries now showed clear parallels to his new role models Bosch and Bruegel. He was often pigeonholed with the Viennese artists of Fantastic Realism, which Serialt has always rejected. For him, art only has value if it has content and doesn't lose itself in random whimsicality. Thus, series not only took sides for the declining, independent culture of the Heanzen, but increasingly dealt with environmental issues and other political issues. PLEASE NOTE: The purchase price consists of the highest bid plus the buyer's premium, sales tax and, if applicable, the fee of artists resale rights. In the case of normal taxation (marked ° in the catalog), a premium of 24% is added to the highest bid. The mandatory sales tax of 13% is added to the sum of the highest bid and the buyer's premium. The buyer's premium amounts to 28% in case of differential taxation. The sales tax is included in the differential taxation.
Widder Auctions
May. 19, 2022
HERMANN SERIENT (born 1935 in Melk)
Est: €2,500 - €4,000
HERMANN SERIENT* (born 1935 in Melk) Caravan, 1975 oil/wood, 32 x 37,2 cm signed Serient verso signed and dated Serient 1975, inscribed Wohnwagen Zyklus Provenance: private property Vienna ESTIMATE °€ 2.500 - 4.000 Austrian artist of the 20th century. Lives and works in Vienna and southern Burgenland. Completed an apprenticeship as a goldsmith, lived in Vienna in the 1960s as an artist, cartoonist for the Wiener Arbeiterzeitung and jazz musician, and traveled through Europe by car stop. He experimented with homemade instruments, took photographs and made animated films for the ORF. From the 1970s, as a forerunner of the green movement, social and environmental themes in his work. Works in old master technique like the representatives of Magic Realism and the Viennese School of Fantastic Realism Ernst Fuchs, Arik Brauer, Rudolf Hausner and Wolfgang Hutter. Interest in works by Hieronymus Bosch and Pieter Breughel. Grotesque, enigmatic, fairy-tale and mystical elements as in Surrealism. Themes and motifs always related to the present, social criticism and pointing out environmental destruction. Also comic and humorous elements as in the depictions of the vampire, flying witches and fantasy creatures. Luminosity of colors by mixing the pigments, oil paints and egg tempera. 2005 and 2015 exhibitions at the Landesgalerie Burgenland in Eisenstadt. When Hermann Serient, a young goldsmith and jazz musician from Melk, hitchhiked in the 1950s, financed by engagements as a trombonist and drummer, to see the art of the "old masters" up close in Europe's museums, he was particularly interested for the painting of Hieronymus Bosch or Bruegel, for the handling of the material by Dutch Renaissance painters. Like these, Seriet always uses his own paints, which he does not mix on the palette but applies to the picture support, preferably wood, in many thin layers until he achieves the desired color tone. In 1965, Serient moved to the south of Burgenland, where he completely relocated his life for a few years and where he still lives today. The archaic and hermetic world that he found in the villages of the "Heanzen" appeared to the city dweller Serient as completely new and incomprehensible; however, he quickly made friends personally. The fascination he felt in view of the primitive building forms, the different way of speaking and clothing in every village and last but not least the traditional festivals and rituals, which must have seemed mysterious and bizarre to the outsider, became a main source of inspiration for the artist and also found outside of his famous Heanzen -cycle their precipitation. Originally characterized by caricature and influenced by the expressionism of George Grosz or Alfred Kubin, the densely populated sceneries now showed clear parallels to his new role models Bosch and Bruegel. He was often pigeonholed with the Viennese artists of Fantastic Realism, which Serialt has always rejected. For him, art only has value if it has content and doesn't lose itself in random whimsicality. Thus, series not only took sides for the declining, independent culture of the Heanzen, but increasingly dealt with environmental issues and other political issues. PLEASE NOTE: The purchase price consists of the highest bid plus the buyer's premium, sales tax and, if applicable, the fee of artists resale rights. In the case of normal taxation (marked ° in the catalog), a premium of 24% is added to the highest bid. The mandatory sales tax of 13% is added to the sum of the highest bid and the buyer's premium. The buyer's premium amounts to 28% in case of differential taxation. The sales tax is included in the differential taxation.
Widder Auctions
May. 19, 2022
HERMANN SERIENT (born 1935 in Melk)
Est: €2,000 - €4,000
HERMANN SERIENT* (born 1935 in Melk) Encounter, 2020 oil and egg tempera/plate, 29,8 x 23,8 cm signed Serient and dated 2020 verso inscribed Begegnung Öl Eitempera 2020 Provenance: private property Vienna ESTIMATE °€ 2.000 - 4.000 Austrian artist of the 20th century. Lives and works in Vienna and southern Burgenland. Completed an apprenticeship as a goldsmith, lived in Vienna in the 1960s as an artist, cartoonist for the Wiener Arbeiterzeitung and jazz musician, and traveled through Europe by car stop. He experimented with homemade instruments, took photographs and made animated films for the ORF. From the 1970s, as a forerunner of the green movement, social and environmental themes in his work. Works in old master technique like the representatives of Magic Realism and the Viennese School of Fantastic Realism Ernst Fuchs, Arik Brauer, Rudolf Hausner and Wolfgang Hutter. Interest in works by Hieronymus Bosch and Pieter Breughel. Grotesque, enigmatic, fairy-tale and mystical elements as in Surrealism. Themes and motifs always related to the present, social criticism and pointing out environmental destruction. Also comic and humorous elements as in the depictions of the vampire, flying witches and fantasy creatures. Luminosity of colors by mixing the pigments, oil paints and egg tempera. 2005 and 2015 exhibitions at the Landesgalerie Burgenland in Eisenstadt. When Hermann Serient, a young goldsmith and jazz musician from Melk, hitchhiked in the 1950s, financed by engagements as a trombonist and drummer, to see the art of the "old masters" up close in Europe's museums, he was particularly interested for the painting of Hieronymus Bosch or Bruegel, for the handling of the material by Dutch Renaissance painters. Like these, Seriet always uses his own paints, which he does not mix on the palette but applies to the picture support, preferably wood, in many thin layers until he achieves the desired color tone. In 1965, Serient moved to the south of Burgenland, where he completely relocated his life for a few years and where he still lives today. The archaic and hermetic world that he found in the villages of the "Heanzen" appeared to the city dweller Serient as completely new and incomprehensible; however, he quickly made friends personally. The fascination he felt in view of the primitive building forms, the different way of speaking and clothing in every village and last but not least the traditional festivals and rituals, which must have seemed mysterious and bizarre to the outsider, became a main source of inspiration for the artist and also found outside of his famous Heanzen -cycle their precipitation. Originally characterized by caricature and influenced by the expressionism of George Grosz or Alfred Kubin, the densely populated sceneries now showed clear parallels to his new role models Bosch and Bruegel. He was often pigeonholed with the Viennese artists of Fantastic Realism, which Serialt has always rejected. For him, art only has value if it has content and doesn't lose itself in random whimsicality. Thus, series not only took sides for the declining, independent culture of the Heanzen, but increasingly dealt with environmental issues and other political issues.The masks that appear again and again in Serients pictures are not only about the carnivalesque, about exuberant masquerade and mummery, but also about falsehood and hypocrisy, about being and appearance, about the control over the image that others have or should have of you. whimsicality and lovability; silliness and despicableness; Joke and serious argument - these things are not easy to separate in series. Aesthetics plays a special role for the trained goldsmith: the eye-catching colors and details are not ends in themselves, they are not intended to cover anything, but on the contrary serve to uncover or uncover. Once Serient gets the viewer to look at the colors, they may see behind the colorful facade and discover other, less obvious facets and meanings of the scene. PLEASE NOTE: The purchase price consists of the highest bid plus the buyer's premium, sales tax and, if applicable, the fee of artists resale rights. In the case of normal taxation (marked ° in the catalog), a premium of 24% is added to the highest bid. The mandatory sales tax of 13% is added to the sum of the highest bid and the buyer's premium. The buyer's premium amounts to 28% in case of differential taxation. The sales tax is included in the differential taxation.
Widder Auctions
May. 19, 2022
HERMANN SERIENT (born 1935 in Melk)
Est: €40,000 - €80,000
HERMANN SERIENT* (born 1935 in Melk) Dracula's night, 1969-70 oil and egg tempera/plate, 184,5 x 88,5 cm verso signed, titled and dated Serient Einladung zur Draculanacht Öl 1969/1970, Privatsammlung Wien Provenance: acquired from the artist, gallery Peithner Lichtenfels, private collection Vienna, Fine Arts Widder Vienna ESTIMATE °€ 40.000 - 80.000 Austrian artist of the 20th century. Lives and works in Vienna and southern Burgenland. Completed an apprenticeship as a goldsmith, lived in Vienna in the 1960s as an artist, cartoonist for the Wiener Arbeiterzeitung and jazz musician, and traveled through Europe by car stop. He experimented with homemade instruments, took photographs and made animated films for the ORF. From the 1970s, as a forerunner of the green movement, social and environmental themes in his work. Works in old master technique like the representatives of Magic Realism and the Viennese School of Fantastic Realism Ernst Fuchs, Arik Brauer, Rudolf Hausner and Wolfgang Hutter. Interest in works by Hieronymus Bosch and Pieter Breughel. Grotesque, enigmatic, fairy-tale and mystical elements as in Surrealism. Themes and motifs always related to the present, social criticism and pointing out environmental destruction. Also comic and humorous elements as in the depictions of the vampire, flying witches and fantasy creatures. Luminosity of colors by mixing the pigments, oil paints and egg tempera. 2005 and 2015 exhibitions at the Landesgalerie Burgenland in Eisenstadt. When Hermann Serient, a young goldsmith and jazz musician from Melk, hitchhiked in the 1950s, financed by engagements as a trombonist and drummer, to see the art of the "old masters" up close in Europe's museums, he was particularly interested for the painting of Hieronymus Bosch or Bruegel, for the handling of the material by Dutch Renaissance painters. Like these, Seriet always uses his own paints, which he does not mix on the palette but applies to the picture support, preferably wood, in many thin layers until he achieves the desired color tone. In 1965, Serient moved to the south of Burgenland, where he completely relocated his life for a few years and where he still lives today. The archaic and hermetic world that he found in the villages of the "Heanzen" appeared to the city dweller Serient as completely new and incomprehensible; however, he quickly made friends personally. The fascination he felt in view of the primitive building forms, the different way of speaking and clothing in every village and last but not least the traditional festivals and rituals, which must have seemed mysterious and bizarre to the outsider, became a main source of inspiration for the artist and also found outside of his famous Heanzen -cycle their precipitation. Originally characterized by caricature and influenced by the expressionism of George Grosz or Alfred Kubin, the densely populated sceneries now showed clear parallels to his new role models Bosch and Bruegel. He was often pigeonholed with the Viennese artists of Fantastic Realism, which Serialt has always rejected. For him, art only has value if it has content and doesn't lose itself in random whimsicality. Thus, series not only took sides for the declining, independent culture of the Heanzen, but increasingly dealt with environmental issues and other political issues. In the Draculanacht the fantastical elements and also the erotic connotation of the vampire theme, as clearly hinted at in Bram Stoker's famous Dracula novel, come to the fore more strongly than the socially critical content. A gentleman in tails makes advances to a woman who is only wearing a grotesque hat. Through the twilight, three more naked female figures fly in from afar. Creepy rosy appetizers are served in the foreground. PLEASE NOTE: The purchase price consists of the highest bid plus the buyer's premium, sales tax and, if applicable, the fee of artists resale rights. In the case of normal taxation (marked ° in the catalog), a premium of 24% is added to the highest bid. The mandatory sales tax of 13% is added to the sum of the highest bid and the buyer's premium. The buyer's premium amounts to 28% in case of differential taxation. The sales tax is included in the differential taxation.
Widder Auctions
May. 19, 2022
HERMANN SERIENT (born 1935 in Melk)
Est: €4,000 - €8,000
HERMANN SERIENT* (born 1935 in Melk) Vampires, 1969 oil and egg tempera/wood, 24,4 x 25 cm signed Serient and dated 1969 verso label Gallery Peithner Lichtenfels 1969, titled Vampire Provenance: private property Vienna ESTIMATE °€ 4.000 - 8.000 Austrian artist of the 20th century. Lives and works in Vienna and southern Burgenland. Completed an apprenticeship as a goldsmith, lived in Vienna in the 1960s as an artist, cartoonist for the Wiener Arbeiterzeitung and jazz musician, and traveled through Europe by car stop. He experimented with homemade instruments, took photographs and made animated films for the ORF. From the 1970s, as a forerunner of the green movement, social and environmental themes in his work. Works in old master technique like the representatives of Magic Realism and the Viennese School of Fantastic Realism Ernst Fuchs, Arik Brauer, Rudolf Hausner and Wolfgang Hutter. Interest in works by Hieronymus Bosch and Pieter Breughel. Grotesque, enigmatic, fairy-tale and mystical elements as in Surrealism. Themes and motifs always related to the present, social criticism and pointing out environmental destruction. Also comic and humorous elements as in the depictions of the vampire. Luminosity of colors by mixing the pigments, oil paints and egg tempera. 2005 and 2015 exhibitions at the Landesgalerie Burgenland in Eisenstadt. When Hermann Serient, a young goldsmith and jazz musician from Melk, hitchhiked in the 1950s, financed by engagements as a trombonist and drummer, to see the art of the "old masters" up close in Europe's museums, he was particularly interested for the painting of Hieronymus Bosch or Bruegel, for the handling of the material by Dutch Renaissance painters. Like these, Seriet always uses his own paints, which he does not mix on the palette but applies to the picture support, preferably wood, in many thin layers until he achieves the desired color tone. In 1965, Serient moved to the south of Burgenland, where he completely relocated his life for a few years and where he still lives today. The archaic and hermetic world that he found in the villages of the "Heanzen" appeared to the city dweller Serient as completely new and incomprehensible; however, he quickly made friends personally. The fascination he felt in view of the primitive building forms, the different way of speaking and clothing in every village and last but not least the traditional festivals and rituals, which must have seemed mysterious and bizarre to the outsider, became a main source of inspiration for the artist and also found outside of his famous Heanzen -cycle their precipitation. Originally characterized by caricature and influenced by the expressionism of George Grosz or Alfred Kubin, the densely populated sceneries now showed clear parallels to his new role models Bosch and Bruegel. He was often pigeonholed with the Viennese artists of Fantastic Realism, which Serialt has always rejected. For him, art only has value if it has content and doesn't lose itself in random whimsicality. Thus, series not only took sides for the declining, independent culture of the Heanzen, but increasingly dealt with environmental issues and other political issues. The vampire, before whom the two much smaller men bow in awe, is a barely encoded warning against charlatanry, paternalism and exploitation. The profiteers of social inequality appear here as creepy bloodsuckers. PLEASE NOTE: The purchase price consists of the highest bid plus the buyer's premium, sales tax and, if applicable, the fee of artists resale rights. In the case of normal taxation (marked ° in the catalog), a premium of 24% is added to the highest bid. The mandatory sales tax of 13% is added to the sum of the highest bid and the buyer's premium. The buyer's premium amounts to 28% in case of differential taxation. The sales tax is included in the differential taxation.
Widder Auctions
Dec. 17, 2020
Hermann Serient*; The caravan
Est: €2,500 - €3,500
Hermann Serient* (Melk 1935 geb.) The caravan, 1975 oil on pressboard; 32 x 37.2 cm signed at the lower centre: Serient signed and dated on the reverse: Serient / 1975 inscribed on the reverse: Wohnwagen Zyklus Provenance private property, Austria
Im Kinsky
Apr. 25, 2015
The Kin
Est: €1,500 - €1,800
Hermann Serient Melk 1935 - Oil/masonite, 16,5 x 29,5 cm, up. le. sign. Serient, up. ri. dat. 1967, on the reverse titled on labels of the Peithner Lichtenfels'sche Galerie a. the Collection Friedrich Grohe. - Austrian painter a. sculptor. S. was trained as goldsmith 1950-54; since 1960 he worked as free-lance artist. He also created photos, animated cartoons a. ceramics. He had exhibitions in Europe a. Japan a. was awarded numerous prizes.
Auktionshaus Stahl
Jun. 04, 2010
Serient, Hermann 1935 Melk/Danube The Industrial Advisor.
Est: - €1,500
Serient, Hermann 1935 Melk/Danube The Industrial Advisor.1992. Oil on canvas. 45,5 x 55,5cm. Signed lower right: SERIENT. Also signed on canvas and stretcher on verso SERIENT and inscribed ÖL 1992. Framed.
Van Ham Kunstauktionen
Mar. 13, 2009
Hermann Serient, Work
Est: ¥200,000 - ¥300,000
tempera on panel, painted in 1972, signed (lower left), signed and dated (on the reverse), framed
Mallet Auction
Mar. 13, 2009
Hermann Serient, Work
Est: ¥50,000 - ¥80,000
ink on paper, executed in 1973, signed and dated (lower right), framed
Mallet Auction
Dec. 19, 2007
-Hermann Serient * (born 1935 in Melk 1935)
Est: €2,000 - €2,800
-Hermann Serient * (born 1935 in Melk 1935) Bizarre figures, signed Serient, tempera on hardboard, 35 x 23 cm, framed, (K)
Dorotheum
Nov. 28, 2007
-Hermann Serient *(born 1935 in Melk) The Tower,
Est: €4,000 - €5,000
-Hermann Serient *(born 1935 in Melk) The Tower, signed and dated Serient 1969, tempera on hardboard, 51.5 x 69.5 cm, framed, (K)
Dorotheum