Heinrich Krause

Austrian painter Heinrich Krause studied at the Wien (Vienna) Academy of Art and spent a year in Italy with a Rome Prize travel grant. From 1914-37 he was a member of the Vienna Secession, then a member in the Vienna Künstlerhaus (House of Artists Museum), and is considered one of the most important Austrian painters between the two world wars. Krause’s early landscapes give an occasional hint of Austrian Impressionism. The most lasting are his French landscape paintings, which he created during a stay there. His later floral pieces show a spiritual, material form of light. In some floral pieces and still lifes, and less often in figural compositions, his relationship to New Objectivity became visible.

Krause’s Boxer, oil on canvas in the format 47 x 38.5 cm, was also shown at the exhibition of the Vienna Secession in the year of the Olympic Games in Berlin. The oil paintings submitted in 1936 and 1948 are probably identical.