Erika Giovanna Klien (1900-1957)

Begegnung

Details

Erika Giovanna Klien (1900-1957)
Begegnung
signed and dated 'E.G. KLIEN 1927' (lower left)
tempera on canvas
30 x 30in. (77.5 x 77.5cm.)
Painted in 1927

Provenance

Galerie Michael Pabst, Munich.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.

Exhibited

Paris, Muse National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Vienne - La Joyeuse Apocalypse, Feb.-May 1986, no. 66.
Vienna, sterreichische Galerie, Emigrants and Exiles: A Lost Generation of Austrian Artists in America, 1920-1950, Jan.-March 1996, no. 66 (illustrated in colour). This exhibition later travelled to Chicago, Mary and Leigh Block Gallery, Northwestern University, April-June 1996.

Lot Essay

Erika Giovann Klien was born Trentino, Italy, which at the time was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. She studied at the Hochschule fr Angewandte Kunst in Vienna between 1919 and 1924, under the tutelage of the famous Viennese art paedagogue Franz Cizek. He was the founder of Kineticism, a movement inspired by the Italian Futurists, of which Klien was a main proponent. In 1929 Klien emigrated to America and took on American citizenship in 1938. She died in New York in 1957.

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