Gunther Kraus - UNTITLED -

Color etching (iron etching) 24 cm circle, 46 x 36 cm the sheet on handmade paper.
Signed in pencil, dated 84 and inscribed EA ( Edition Artist )
Magnificent print with scalloped edge. Very rare.
Very good condition .

Günther Kraus (August 20, 1930 in Klagenfurt - February 19, 1988 in Vienna) was an Austrian visual artist.

From 1944 to 1949, Kraus studied painting and graphic arts, as well as heraldry, mosaic art, and sculpture, at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. He then spent time studying in New York, Philadelphia, Mexico, Tokyo, and Paris. Impressed by the vibrant art scene abroad, Günther Kraus worked on his first Pop Art projects in Austria in the early 1950s. With his sensational exhibitions, he became a member of the avant-garde of the 1950s and 1960s.
He attracted widespread attention with his design of the parliament building in Ankara in 1951. Commissions followed both at home and abroad.
That same year, he developed a plan for a pedestrian zone in Vienna. In the 1960s, the city expressed interest in his idea, and he won the international competition to design the Stephansplatz pedestrian zone in 1974. The design was never implemented.
At his solo exhibition at the Vienna Secession in 1956, he met his future wife, Margarethe Herzele. Joint projects and exhibitions followed. The artist couple lived primarily in Vienna and Carinthia. Their daughter, Titanilla Eisenhart, born in 1961, also became an artist.
Günther Kraus founded an artists' group with Margarethe Herzele, Ludwig Merwart, Theo Braun, and Peter Baum. Several joint exhibitions followed. He founded the Krastal Sculpture Symposium with the sculptor Otto Eder.
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