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 51:
JOSEF HOFFMANN* (Pirnitz 1870 - 1956 Vienna)
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Sold for: €1,000
Start price:
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1,000
Estimated price :
€1,000 - €2,000
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)
Siblings (presumably for Mäda Primavesi)
pencil, indian ink and watercolor/paper, 12.5 x 20.5 cm
inscribed Memfis, Hauptstr. N° 13
provenance: estate of Josef Hoffmann, private collection Vienna
ESTIMATE °€ 1.000 - 2.000
STARTING PRICE °€ 1.000
Josef Hoffmann, a student of Carl Hasenauer and Otto Wagner and a founding member of the Vienna Secession, was one of the central figures of Viennese modernism as an architect and designer. Josef Hoffmann created residential buildings for Carl Moll, Koloman Moser, Eduard Ast, Otto Primavesi, Robert Primavesi and Sonja Knips, among others. In connection with the International Art Exhibition in Rome, for which Hoffmann built the Austrian pavilion, Anton Hanak introduced Hoffmann to the Primavesi family of bankers and industrialists. For Robert Primavesi Hoffmann built, among other things, the Skywa-Primavesi villa in Vienna-Hietzing, and for his cousin Otto Primavesi he furnished the town house in Olomouc, built a bank house there, and erected a country house in Winkelsdorf. In 1912 Otto Primavesi commissioned Gustav Klimt to paint portraits of his wife and Eugenia "Mäda" and their common daughter Mäda Gertrude. The Primavesis in Olomouc, the Primavesis in Vienna, Josef Hoffmann, Anton Hanak and Gustav Klimt were close friends. For Mäda Gertrude in particular, Hoffmann was a kind of uncle. For Mäda Gertrude, Josef Hoffmann made the present drawing in comic style. In 1903, Hoffmann 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. Otto, Eugenia and Robert Primavesi participated in the WW in 1914 with a contribution of 400000 crowns. Hoffmann remained one of the most important designers of WW until its bankruptcy in 1932. The Wiener Werkstätte aimed to unite the entire spheres of human life in design, in the sense of a Gesamtkunstwerk. Among the WW staff were about a dozen women who were crucial to the stylistic shift from Art Nouveau to Art Deco in the 1920s, such as Vally Wieselthier, Gudrun Baudisch, Reni Schaschl, Hilda Jesser, and Susi Singer. Together with Stefan Rath, the head of the glass manufacturer Lobmeyr, Josef Hoffmann founded the Österreichischer Werkbund (ÖWB) in 1912. Hoffmann designed numerous glasses and chandeliers for Lobmeyr during this period, some of which are still produced by Lobmeyr today. 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 Vienna Arts and Crafts Association (a Nazi successor organization to the Austrian 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 the war, in 1948, Hoffmann founded the Österreichische Werkstätten as the successor to Wiener Werkstätte und Werkbund (ÖWB). 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.
