Aus Albanien 1916

Aus Albanien (''From Albania'') is an original artwork realized by Ferdinand Andri in 1916. Lithograph on yellow plate. Printed by k. k. Hof- und Staatsdruckerei Wien / Albert Berger Wien; published in the ''Jahresmappe der Gesellschaft für vervielfältigende kunst in Wien'', the artwork is part of the portfolio realized by Koloman Moser (1868-1918). Good conditions. It represents a lonely horse in a desert landscape. The animal is dead in a desolated place. Ferdinand Andri realized several artworks with this kind of subject: a horse in a natural space under a cloudy sky. Ferdinand Andri (Waidhofen an der Ybbs, 1871 – Wien, 1956) was an Austrian engraver and artist. Between 1884 and 1886, he began an apprenticeship with Johann Kepplinger at Ottensheim, near Linz. Between 1886 and 1893, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Wien with Julius Victor Berger and August Eisenmenger. Between 1892 and 1894, he attended the School of Art with Caspar Ritter and Claus Meyer. He travelled a lot all over Italy, France, England and North America. In 1897 he married Charlotte Hampel (1863 – 1945), an Austrian painter. Between 1899 and 1909, he became a member of the Viennese Secession and, in 1905 - 1906, he became the president. In 1901, he realized the manifest for the tenth exhibition of the Viennese Secession. During these years he collaborated with the magazine Ver Sacrum. Between 1923 and 1929, he became the president of a Perfection School at the Academy of Fine Arts in Wien, where he teached until 1939. He was also the co-founder of the Austrian Werkbund, that was a movement that promoted handicraft. In 1939, he retired but during the same year he became a member of the Wiener Künstlerhaus. His name was inserted into the so-called “List of Gottbegnadeten” of Joseph Goebbels, as an important painter of the Third Reich. In 1950, Andri gave all his artworks to St. Pölten, that instituted the Ferdinand Andri Museum. Image Dimensions : 35.5 x 48.5 cm This artwork is shipped from Italy. Under existing legislation, any artwork in Italy created over 70 years ago by an artist who has died requires a licence for export regardless of the work’s market price. The shipping may require additional handling days to require the licence according to the final destination of the artwork.