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Art Deco Bust of a Woman
chromed bronze
c. 1950
Franz Hagenauer
Vienna Austria

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This striking sculpture is a modernist stylized female head created by Austrian artist Franz Hagenauer for Werkstätte Hagenauer Wien around the mid-20th century. Crafted from nickel-plated or chromed brass and metal featuring graceful, abstracted facial features. Adorned with distinct, sweeping looped ribbon curls that form an elegant stylized hairstyle. Mounted on a rectangular metallic base with the characteristic impressed manufacturer hallmarks on the underside. Franz Hagenauer (Vienna 1906 - 1986 Vienna) Franz Hagenauer was the younger brother of Karl Hagenauer, with whom he took over his father's workshop, founded in 1898, in the second generation. After Franz Hagenauer discovered his interest in artistic activities at the age of twelve during a youth course with Franz Cizek at the School of Arts and Crafts, he studied sculpture with Anton Hanak and metalwork with Josef Hoffmann at the same school from 1921. Over the course of his life, his artistic work increasingly focused on sculptural activities and his works, which were mostly made of sheet brass, as well as his expressive bronze torsos, can be attributed to great artistic skill. Similar to his brother's designs, a reduction of ornamentation and a focus on clear forms and contours became increasingly apparent. Thanks to numerous international commissions, the workshop was also very successful far beyond the borders of Europe. Early on, Franz Hagenauer provided designs for the Hagenauer Werkstätte and was represented at the Paris World Exhibition (1925) with works for the exhibition space. Franz Hagenauer became a member of the Kunstschau and took part in the Venice Biennale in 1934. After the war, the variety of materials was expanded and new motifs were created, some of them in wood. In 1950, Franz Hagenauer was awarded the Prize for Applied Arts of the City of Vienna. Hagenauer died in 1986, and the workshop closed shortly after.
August 22, 2026 at 5:13 PM