JOHANNA PANIGL (Cieszyn 1905 - 1995 Vienna), Tree Trunks

JOHANNA PANIGL*
(Cieszyn 1905 - 1995 Vienna)
Tree Trunks
mixed media/transparent paper, 58,1 x 44 cm
signed Hanna Panigl Schön
Provenance: estate of the artist, gallery 16 Vienna, Fine Arts Widder Vienna

ESTIMATE °€ 800 - 1.200
START € 600

Austrian artist of the 20th century. Studied at the Vienna School of Applied Arts from 1920 to 1927, attended architecture class with Josef Hoffmann, nude drawing with Erich Mallina and ornament class with Fraz Cizek. Married architect Karl Panigl, who studied with josef Hoffmann and Josef Frank. Created designs of fabrics, wallpapers and illustrations for children's books. Early influences of Art Nouveau, influence of Josef Frank visible in the imaginative and playful works. Ornaments, plants, trees, flowers, leaves are drawn as patterns across the paper.

Johanna Panigl-Schön studied at the Vienna School of Applied Arts from 1920 to 1927, which at that time was still closely associated with the Museum of Applied Arts. This already had a tradition in the 1920s as one of the cradles of Viennese Art Nouveau. Among the curators and teachers were Otto Wagner, Kolo Moser and Josef Hoffmann. Johanna Panigl-Schön attended the architecture class of the latter, as well as general nude drawing with Erich Mallina and the ornament course of Franz Cižek. It was probably at this time that she met her future husband, the architect Karl Panigl.
The three ornamental works "Leaves, Blossoms and Fruits", "Tree Trunks" and "Small Judges" that emerge from this training context are designs for wallpaper and fabrics on tracing paper. Johanna Panigl-Schön works out the pictorial patterns with meticulous perfection and great attention to detail. A tangle of intersecting paths, riders and horse-drawn carriages evokes movement, while at the same time the regularity and orderliness catch the eye. The artist thus maintains a sensitive balance between pattern and image. The special aesthetics of the plant pictures also arise from the combination of plant motifs with flat patterns in the infield, thus avoiding three-dimensionality despite figurative echoes. These particularly imaginative and playful works also reveal the influence of Josef Frank, who as a designer strives for modern individuality and a combination of practical functionality with elegance and homeliness. The works from Franz Cižek's widely acclaimed youth art courses, such as the course on ornamental form, were also shown in England, the USA, South Africa and India from the 1920s onwards. Johanna Panigl-Schön's work stands in this large international context. In the 1940s she worked as an illustrator for children's books. Today, only a few works by Johanna Panigl-Schön are known.

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