Lot 41: Franziska Zach(Losenstein near Steyr, Upper

Franziska Zach(Losenstein near Steyr, Upper Austria, 1900-1930 Vienna) "Landscape", signed and dated Zach 29, inscribed on the reverse No. 41 Fr. Zach 1929 Landschaft 60 x 50, oil on canvas, 50 x 60 cm, on a stretcher, (K)Provenance: private property, Lower AustriaAssociate member of the Hagenbund; member of "Wiener Frauenkunst".Attended the Technical School of the Textile Industry in Vienna and from 1917 to 1920, the General Department of the School of Arts and Crafts, where she studied with O. Strnad and A. Böhm; in 1920/23, she studied at the Department of Painting under Wilhelm Müller-Hofmanns and in 1923/24, in Josef Hoffmann's Enamelling Workshop. She first appeared in public with enamels in an exhibition on Christian art (Vienna Secession, 1925), in the Paris International Arts and Crafts Exhibition (1925), in the European Arts and Crafts exhibition (Leipzig 1927), and in the exhibition Neue christliche Kunst (Munich, Crystal Palace, 1927). Later she also practiced fresco painting, executing wall paintings for a chapel on the Großglockner mountain range, in Reitenau Castle (Styria), and in the villa of Dr. Pelzer in Hietzing in Vienna. In 1928 she undertook a study trip to Ireland, and in 1929 travelled to Corsica via Avignon. In 1930 she settled in Paris, where she participated in the Salon d'automne with four paintings. In 1928 she executed portraits of her mother and of the sculptor Santifaller, a self-portrait, and the group portrait The Family; in 1930 she did another self-portrait (repr. in: Kunst und Künstler, 29 [1930/31] 403), Still Life with a Red Cloth, and French Working-Class Women (owned by the das Wiener Städtische Sammlungen). In a number of Compositions she attempted to deal with figural problems that had been adressed in recent exhibitions on French art (May 1931, Wiener Hagenbund) and Viennese women artists (October 1932). See Thieme-Becker, vol. XXXVI, p. 376.