St. James's Auctions
Auction 55 26 Jan 2022
View prices realized
► Sale information
Find similar lots
Art Nouveau, Austria, The Vienna Secession, the Vienna Men's Singing Association performing at the Imperial Austrian Exhibition, London, patinated bronze plaquette, 1906, by Josef Heu (1876-1952), standing robed figures of a man and woman, legend in 9 lines, in the Secessionist style, 84.5 x 102mm., very fine, scarce
Prof. H. C. Josef Heu, Austrian painter, sculptor and teacher. Heu was born in Maribor [Marburg an der Drau], now Slovenia, then part of the Austro- Hungarian Empire. He taught as a Professor at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna and was President of the Austrian Society of Christian Art. His wife, however, was Jewish, the daughter of the General Director of the Vienna Opera House and she and their two sons fled to England in 1938. He followed in 1939 and they were given a home by the monks at Ampleforth, later living nearby at Coxwold.
(80-120 GBP)
Prof. H. C. Josef Heu, Austrian painter, sculptor and teacher. Heu was born in Maribor [Marburg an der Drau], now Slovenia, then part of the Austro- Hungarian Empire. He taught as a Professor at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna and was President of the Austrian Society of Christian Art. His wife, however, was Jewish, the daughter of the General Director of the Vienna Opera House and she and their two sons fled to England in 1938. He followed in 1939 and they were given a home by the monks at Ampleforth, later living nearby at Coxwold.
(80-120 GBP)