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Heinz Pinggera developed figurative paintings whose documented subjects alternate between landscapes and interior scenes. Views of Monte Carlo and the Hochschwab region extend his repertoire to coastal and mountain settings, treated in oils or watercolour. Indoors, music provides another connecting theme: lute players, singers and instrumentalists animate compositions evoking an earlier world. The presence of a cardinal in a concert scene places the figures within a particular social setting. Pinggera used several supports, including canvas, wood and paper. This technical variety accompanies the movement between observing a place and staging figures gathered around an activity, revealing a practice that encompasses more than one type of subject.
This profile brings together identity references for Heinz Pinggera and paintings, drawings and works on paper documented in auction catalogues.
Artcurial Beurret Bailly Widmer
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Oil on canvas
Haremsszene
huile sur toile
Catalogue period : 2014-06-21
Published result : 8512 CHF
Including buyer’s premium
Estimate : CHF 3000–4000
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