SYLVIA PENTHER* (Vienna 1891 - 1984 Vienna) Houses, 1922 oil/board, 39 x 43 cm signed Sylvia Penther, dated ...

SYLVIA PENTHER* (Vienna 1891 - 1984 Vienna)
Houses, 1922
oil/board, 39 x 43 cm
signed Sylvia Penther, dated 1922

ESTIMATE °€ 3000 - 6000
STARTING PRICE °€ 3000

The Austrian painter and graphic artist Sylvia Penther specialized in linocuts printed on both sides. She found her motifs in Viennese fashion from the Baroque to the Biedermeier. She made the linocuts for the German company Wohlgemuth and Lissner, which had German and Austrian artists such as Lovis Corinth and Käthe Kollwitz under contract. Penther was a member of the Wiener Werkstätte. She attended the graphic arts teaching and research institute in Vienna and then studied at the Vienna School of Applied Arts under Wilhelm Müller-Hofmann, Franz Cizek and Erich Mallina. She mostly published self-printed small graphic series and handwritten books. She also designed over fifty bookplates, primarily using the woodcut technique. She was a member of the Association of Female Artists in Austria. As a painter, she created landscapes and still lifes in oil and watercolor and from the 1940s onwards she primarily focused on encaustics. Her works include: at the Belvedere in Vienna.

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