Advent Episcopal School – Advent Episcopal Day School Auction 2011
Auction Ends: Feb 24, 2011 08:00 PM CST

Art and Antiques

Red Seated Woman

Item Number
616
Estimated Value
1000 USD

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Item Description

by  Emil Hozhauer.  21 by 17 inches.  Red chalk.

ABOUT HOLZHAUER:

Dates: 1887-1986

Education: Studied art at the Staatliche Werkkunst Schule in Germany. Studied at the New York School of Art with Robert Henri and later at the Henri Art School. Fellow students included George Bellows, Edward Hopper, Rockwell Kent.

Teaching Experience: Chicago Art Institute 1921-1942; Wesleyan College, Macon, Georgia 1942-1953

Medium: Charcoal and pastel, also oil

Style: American Modernist/Expressionist paintings with strong fauvist colors and forms reminiscent of Cezanne and Van Gogh. Holzhauer painted his environment—New York, Monhegan Island, Maine; Asheville, NC; Macon, Georgia; Niceville, FL, Mexico—and his subjects focused on the mundane and finding the beauty and grace in a single moment.  Drawings and portraits, architecture and the landscape, Holzhauer’s prolific paintings reflect a man obsessed with recording his environment, not just visually but also capturing the heart and essence of an experience. He was a foreign born artist with an uncanny ability to capture the everyday American reality.

Museums and Galleries: Charleston Renaissance Gallery, Morris Museum of Art, Whitney Museum, High Museum, among many others.

Publications: My South: The Art of Emil Holzhauer (produced by The Charleston Renaissance Gallery in 2007), Emil Holzhauer: The Portrait of an 

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Item Special Note

***This work is part of the estate of the late art collector, Peter Guarisco lll.  The collection was  donated to the Advent Day School by the McGriff family of Birmingham, Al.

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