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Artist: Hans Figura
“On the Seine, Paris”
By Hans Figura
Located in Southampton, NY
Original aquatint etching of working river barges on the Seine in Paris, France. A horse drawn cart is seen loading or unloading product. Circa 1900. Si...
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Early 1900s Academic Hans Figura Art
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Archival Paper, Aquatint
Rothenburg, Germany
By Hans Figura
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Hans Figura (Austrian, 1898-1978)
Title: Rothenburg, Germany
Year: Circa 1950
Medium: Color etching with aquatint
Edition: Unknown
Paper: Printed on silk
Plate mark ...
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Mid-20th Century Realist Hans Figura Art
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Etching
Winter Landscape
By Hans Figura
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Hans Figura (Austrian, 1898-1978)
Title: Winter Landscape
Year: Circa 1950
Medium: Color etching with aquatint on silk
Edition: Unknown
Plate mark (Image) size: 17.25 x 13.75 inches
Framed size: 23 x 19.5 inches
Signature: Hand signed in pencil by the artist
Condition: very good
Frame: Custom framed in a silver and gold frame
About the artist.
Hans Figura (Austrian, 1898-1978) was a noted painter and etcher, who was well known for his aquatint etchings on paper or satin of European and American landscape and cityscape scenes, as well as paintings of landscape and cityscape scenes, Tyrolean Alp scenes of villages and chalets, street scenes, harbor and marine scenes.
Hans Figura was born January 22, 1898, in the small town of Nagy-Kikinda near the Austro-Hungarian border, to Austrian parents. His father was a railway official and he spent his childhood in various small villages along the railway line between Vienna and Hungary. He graduated from the highschool in Vienna and also studied at the Higher Graphical Federal Education and Research Institute, a vocational school there (Höhere Graphische Bundes-Lehr und Versuchsanstalt)
As a young man, he served as an officer in the Austrian Army during WWI from 1916-18 on the Russian and Italian fronts. After the war he attended medical school at the University of Vienna for several years beginning in 1918, and seven semesters later, he passed his first state exam, but eventually decided that he preferred the arts to medicine. He also studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna (Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien) and by 1922 he had devoted himself to painting and etching, while also working in other artistic printing mediums, batik, illustration, bookbinding and working with leather.
From 1923-28, Figura made numerous art study trips throughout Europe including; Germany, Italy, France, Belgium, Holland, England, Czechoslovakia and Hungary. His first major success came in 1924, when he won acclaim for his etchings exhibited in Italy and the United States. In 1929, he visited the United States and in 1930, he traveled back to France, Holland and also Switzerland. During this time, Figura maintained studios in both New York City and Vienna, Austria. Throughout the course of his career, he exhibited his paintings and prints in many of the large cities throughout Europe and the United States and many of his etchings and paintings were acquired by museums and galleries, including The Kulturamt, Vienna, Austria; the Landesmuseum of Lower Austria; as well as The Society of Art Lovers, Berlin and Munich.
Select Exhibitions:
1924- Exhibitions in Italy and the United States.
Circa Mid 1920's-1939- All the exhibitions at the Kunstlerhaus, Vienna, Austria.
1926- "Secession...
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Mid-20th Century Realist Hans Figura Art
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Etching
Hans Figura Cityscape
By Hans Figura
Located in San Francisco, CA
Hans Figura: 1898-1978. Well listed Austrian artist. Most famous for these beautiful etchings on silk. He has an auction result high for a single etching just over $2400. We have own...
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Flowers Market
By Hans Figura
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Hans Figura (Austrian, 1898-1978)
Title: Marche aux Fleurs
Year: Circa 1950
Medium: Color etching with aquatint
Edition: Unknown
Plate mark (Image) size: 8.5 x 6.5...
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Mid-20th Century Realist Hans Figura Art
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Etching
Ansicht Von Rothenburg
By Hans Figura
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Hans Figura
Title: Ansicht Von Rothenburg
Year: Circa 1930
Medium: Color etching on silk
Paper: Wove
Image size: 9.25 x 4.75 inches
Framed size: 16.5 x 12.5 inches
Signa...
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Mid-20th Century Realist Hans Figura Art
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Marche aux Fleurs, Quai de l'Horloge, Paris
By Hans Figura
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Hans Figura (Austrian, 1898-1978)
Title: Marche aux Fleurs, Quai de l'Horloge, Paris
Year: Circa 1950
Medium: Color etching with aquatint on silk
Edition: Unknown
Pl...
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Mid-20th Century Realist Hans Figura Art
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Etching
Cityscape
By Hans Figura
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Hans Figura (Austrian, 1898-1978)
Title: cityscape
Year: Circa 1950
Medium: Color etching with aquatint on silk
Edition: Unknown
Plate mark (Image) size: 11.25 x 8.2...
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Mid-20th Century Realist Hans Figura Art
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Etching
Porte Saint Denis, Paris
By Hans Figura
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Hans Figura (Austrian, 1898-1978)
Title: Porte Saint Denis Paris, Paris
Year: Circa 1950
Medium: Color etching with aquatint on silk
Edition: ...
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Mid-20th Century Realist Hans Figura Art
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Etching
The Bridge House
By Hans Figura
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Hans Figura (Austrian, 1898-1978)
Title: The Bridge House
Year: Circa 1950
Medium: Color etching with aquatint on silk
Edition: Unknown
Plate mark (Image) size: 10 ...
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Mid-20th Century Realist Hans Figura Art
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Etching
Der Blumenmarkt (Flower Market, Amsterdam)
By Hans Figura
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Hans Figura (Austrian, 1898-1978)
Title: Der Blumenmarkt (Flower Market, Amsterdam)
Year: Circa 1950
Medium: Color etching with aquatint
Edition: Unknown
Paper: wo...
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Mid-20th Century Realist Hans Figura Art
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Etching
European Village
By Hans Figura
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Hans Figura (Austrian, 1898-1978)
Title: European Village
Year: Circa 1950
Medium: Color etching with aquatint
Edition: Unknown
Paper: ...
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Mid-20th Century Realist Hans Figura Art
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Etching
Marche aux Fleurs, Place de la Madeleine, Paris
By Hans Figura
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Hans Figura (Austrian, 1898-1978)
Title: Marche aux Fleurs, Place de la Madeleine, Paris
Year: Circa 1960
Medium: Color etching with aquatint
Edition: Unknown
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Mid-20th Century Realist Hans Figura Art
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