TERMS OF AUCTION
Extract from the Rules of Procedure, as of April 2022
The auctions are conducted in accordance with the Rules of Procedure of the Widder Auctions of Kunsthandel Widder GmbH. The exact wording of these rules is available at the auction house and can be downloaded from www.widderauktionen.com.
Estimated prices, starting price, minimum sale price, limit, hammer price
In object descriptions, an upper and lower estimated price is stated in euros. The highest bid is expected within this range. The starting price is also stated online. As a rule, the starting price is the lower estimated price, but it
can be set higher or lower. The auctioneer increases the price by steps of approx. 10%, although it is possible to deviate from this. The highest bid wins, provided that the minimum selling price has been reached. If the seller decides not to sell the object below a fixed price, this is called the minimum sale price or limit. If this is not reached, the sale is considered conditional. Highest bidders are obliged to pay the purchase price within 7 days after invoicing.
Purchase price
The purchase price consists of the highest bid plus the buyer's premium, sales tax and, if applicable, the fee of artists resale rights. The buyer's premium amounts to 28% in case of differential taxation. The sales tax is included in the differential taxation.
In the case of normal taxation (marked ° ), a premium of 24% is added to the highest bid. For paintings, watercolors, drawings and sculptures, the statutory sales tax of 13% is added to the sum of the highest bid and the buyer's premium, for all other objects 20%.
Resale Right
Items marked * are subject to the resale right. This will be charged in the form of a surcharge on the highest bid. It only applies to highest bids over € 2,499.99 and is staggered: for the first € 50,000 4% will be charged. Thereafter, for each additional €150,000, 3% and 1% respectively, and for €500,000 and above, 0.25%. The maximum resale right charge is 12,500 €.
Authenticity guarantee
The auction house vouches for the authenticity of the object to the buyer within two years and guarantees that the object is indeed by the named artist.
Catalog information and description
Details of technique, signature, material, condition, provenance, etc. are provided by experts of the auction house. However, no guarantee is given for the correctness of this information.
The descriptions of the objects mean: first and last name of the artist with life data: an authentic work of the artist. "Signed" or "monogrammed": a clearly attributable work by the artist. "Attributed": a probably, but not necessarily authentic, work by the artist. "Circle": a work created within the artist's sphere of influence. "Inscribed": a probably authentic work, but not signed by the artist's hand. "Workshop": a work created in the artist's immediate environment. "School": a work created in temporal and stylistic proximity to the artist. "Succession": a stylistically related work created in the artist's succession.
Purchase orders
Interested parties may submit purchase orders in writing and online or bid by telephone. A completed and signed bid form must be received in a timely manner prior to the auction. The auction house will bid for written bids up to the stated highest bid.
Telephone Bids
Interested parties have the possibility to bid by telephone. The auction house will make every effort to reach the telephone number provided. If no telephone connection can be established, the auction house can bid for the interested parties up to the lower estimated price of the object. In this case, the auction house is not obliged to execute the bid.
Online Bidding, Live Bidding
Bidders can place pre-bids and bid live on www.widderauktionen.com as well as on external auction platforms.
Insurance
Objects of art are insured against loss and damage until the end of the collection period, up to the amount of the highest bid. Thereafter, the art object is insured only up to a maximum of 6 months after invoicing, if there is no delay in payment.
Place of jurisdiction, choice of law
Place of jurisdiction and place of performance for all legal relationships is 1010 Vienna. Austrian substantive law shall apply.
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LOT 26:
JOSEF HOFFMANN* (Pirnitz 1870 - 1956 Vienna)
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Sold for: €300
Start price:
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300
Estimated price :
€300 - €600
Buyer's Premium: 24%
More details
VAT: 20%
On the full lot's price and commission
Users from foreign countries may be exempted from tax payments, according to the relevant tax regulations
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JOSEF HOFFMANN*
(Pirnitz 1870 - 1956 Vienna)
Design crystal vase for Lobmeyr, 1954
pencil/paper, 30.3 x 21.7 cm
provenance: Carla Hoffmann, private collection Vienna
ESTIMATE °€ 300 - 600
STARTING PRICE °€ 300
Josef Hoffmann, a student of Otto Wagner, was one of the central figures of Viennese Modernism as an architect and designer. In 1903, he founded the Wiener Werkstätte (WW) with Koloman Moser and industrialist Fritz Waerndorfer, modeled on the British Arts and Crafts Movement and influenced by Viennese Art Nouveau. Hoffmann, a friend of Gustav Klimt and Anton Hanak, among others, remained one of the most important designers of the WW until its bankruptcy in 1932. The Wiener Werkstätte, also referred to as Wiener Werkstatt, Vienna Workshop, Wiener Werkstaetten or Wiener Werkstätten, aimed to unite the entire spheres of human life in design, in the sense of a Gesamtkunstwerk. Its customers were mainly artists and the upwardly mobile Jewish upper and middle classes. Josef Hoffmann's acquaintance with Berta Zuckerkandl led to the first major commission: the Purkersdorf Sanatorium in the west of Vienna, planned by Viktor Zuckerkandl, Berta's brother-in-law. Among WW's employees were about a dozen women who were crucial to the change in style from Art Nouveau to Art Deco in the 1920s, e.g. Vally Wieselthier, Gudrun Baudisch, Reni Schaschl, Hilda Jesser and Susi Singer. In 1823 Josef Lobmeyr Sr. founded his company, which still exists today, in Vienna's Weihburggasse. the company soon became a purveyor to the imperial court. Son Ludwig became the most important protagonist of Austro-Bohemian glass production and presented the company at the first world exhibitions. In 1864, he co-founded the Imperial and Royal Austrian Museum of Art and Industry in Vienna (today: Museum of Applied Arts - MAK). Ludwig's nephew Stefan Rath Sr. led Lobmeyr into modernism and, together with Hoffmann, co-founded the Austrian Werkbund in 1912, of which Josef Hoffmann was a member until 1920. With Josef Hoffmann and the artists of the Wiener Werkstätte, Lobmeyr created classics, drinking glasses and chandeliers during this period, some of which are still produced by Lobmeyr today. The articles were also distributed through the Wiener Werkstätte branches. Josef Hoffmann survived the Nazi period unscathed despite hostility from the Nazi architectural ideologist Paul Schmitthenner. He was commissioned by the Reich Chamber of Fine Arts to further develop the Wiener Kunsthandwerksverein (a Nazi successor organization to the Österreichischer Werkbund) as its artistic director. To this end, an "artistic experimental institute" was founded in 1941, where young artisans could further their education under Hoffmann's guidance. After World War II, in 1948, Hoffmann founded the Österreichische Werkstätten as the successor to the Wiener Werkstätte und Werkbund (ÖWB) - and again designed for Lobmeyr. A cut crystal vase like the one shown here was executed by J. & L. Lobmeyer on behalf of the Ministry of Education for the 1954 Triennale. Hoffmann's tombstone was designed by Fritz Wotruba. "
PLEASE NOTE:
The purchase price consists of the highest bid plus the buyer's premium, sales tax and, if applicable, the fee of artists resale rights. In the case of normal taxation (marked °), a premium of 24% is added to the highest bid. The mandatory sales tax of 13%, for photographys 20%, is added to the sum of the highest bid and the buyer's premium. The buyer's premium amounts to 28% in case of differential taxation. The sales tax is included in the differential taxation.
