ALEXANDER ROTHAUG (1870-1946)
ALEXANDER ROTHAUG (1870-1946)
ALEXANDER ROTHAUG (1870-1946)
ALEXANDER ROTHAUG (1870-1946)
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ALEXANDER ROTHAUG (1870-1946)

Hol'Über! (Get Over!)

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ALEXANDER ROTHAUG (1870-1946)
Hol'Über! (Get Over!)
signed 'ALEXANDER ROTHAUG' (upper left); inscribed and signed 'HOL'ÜBER!/ OLGEMALDE/ ALEXANDER. ROTHAUG. WIEN' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
29 ¾ x 33 ½ in. (75.5 x 85 cm.)
Provenance
Erwin and Hilde Reuther, Vienna.
with Ernst Fuchs, Vienna, from whom acquired by the late Barry Humphries in the 1970s.

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Lot Essay


Alexander Rothaug was active as a painter, stage designer and illustrator in Munich and his native Vienna in the waning years of the 19th century and into the first half of the 20th. Trained at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts by the Orientalist painter Leopold Carl Müller (1834-1892), Rothaug would go on to create his own distinctive style which defies easy classification. With an enduring interest in depicting ancient mythology and Germanic and Norse heroes, Rothaug’s work blends the Classicism he had been taught at the Academy with elements of Jugendstil and also the arresting, atmospheric Symbolism of Franz von Stuck (1863-1928), under whose sway the artist fell during his time in Munich.

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