Gustav Hessing
Reclining nude
1960
Watercolour on paper
36 x 44.5 cm
- signed: "GHessing"
- condition: very good, framed
- published: Martin Suppan (Ed.), Gustav Hessing Monograph Panel 25, ill. no. 38
- verso: inscribed and dedication: "#15,1 Für Frau Wolbenberg, GHessing, 1960"
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about the artist
Gustav Hessing* 1909 , Czernowitz - † 1981 , Wien
Hessing studied in Vienna, his work from the interwar period was expressionistic, later Hessing was influenced by surrealism, cubism and abstract painting. Hessing was banned from working from 1938 to 1945. From 1967 to 1979 he worked as a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. Hessing received the City of Vienna Prize for Fine Arts in 1967. In 1979, Hessing had a major retrospective at the Austrian Belvedere Gallery.
