LASKE OSKAR
Czernowitz 1874 - 1951 Wien
Oskar Laske was born on the 8th of January 1874 in Czernowitz. During his youth Anton Hlavacek taught him landscape painting. After studying architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna under Otto Wagner, he worked mainly as an independent architect and from 1904 on as a painter. His frequently drawn watercolour motives were of his travels to Europe and North Africa. Mainly landscapes, city squares, and genre scenes. His characteristic were cheerful narrative styles and intense colour use. He was a member of Hagenbund, the Secession in 1924, the Künstlerhaus Vienna from 1928 on, and he participated in their exhibitions. During the First World War he was an officer in Galicia and from 1915 on at the Isonzo front. He died in 1951 at the age of 77 years in Vienna and is buried on the Lainzer cemetery in Hietzing.
OSKAR LASKE
Czernowitz 1874 - 1951 Wien
Der Jahrmarkt des Lebens, Opus 123
Öl und Tempera auf Leinwand
150 x 140 cm
links unten signiert und datiert 1936
OSKAR LASKE
Czernowitz 1874 - 1951 Wien
Im Orient
Hinterglas
13 x 13 cm
rechts unten signiert
OSKAR LASKE
Czernowitz 1874 - 1951 Wien
Prozession du Saint Sangue
Öl auf Leinwand
83,5 x 72,5 cm
OSKAR LASKE
Czernowitz 1874 - 1951 Wien
Vincenza-Vista von der Madonna de Monte
Aquarell/Gouache auf Papier
39 x 49,7 cm
rechts unten signiert und datiert 1931