Hugo Dachinger (1908 1995) Mixed Media Reclining Female Nude. 1942

Hugo Dachinger (1908 - 1995). Mixed Media (Charcoal, Pastels & Wash). Signed & Dated 1942 To Top Right. Framed & Glazed In Neutral Wood Frame.

Image Approx 54 x 38 cm. 72 x 56 cm Framed. Hugo Dachinger: Graphic artist, designer, painter and sculptor, Hugo'Puck' Dachinger was born in Gmunden, Upper Austria on 19 September 1908 to Jewish middle-class parents. Afterwards he worked as a graphic designer, moving in 1932 to Vienna, and established workshops in Leipzig, Zagreb and Budapest.

In 1938, travelling via Denmark, he immigrated to England, settling in North London and establishing the successful Transposter Advertising Ltd firm with Ernst Rosenfeld (which closed in 1945). From June 1940-January 1941 Dachinger was interned, first at Huyton, Liverpool (June to Oct 1940) and then in Mooragh Camp, Ramsey, on the Isle of Man (Oct 1940 - Jan 1941), as an'Enemy Alien' After release he married fellow artist and German émigré Meta Gutmann (who nicknamed him'Puck'). He exhibited at German-Jewish émigré Jack Bilbo's Modern Art Gallery in London in 1942 and alongside fellow Austrian artists at the prestigious Redfern and Leger Galleries from 1941-45, also continuing to work as an inventor and designer for various publishing companies. Dachinger's work has been included in survey exhibitions including Kunst im Exil in Grossbritannien 1933-45 (Berlin, Oberhuasen, Vienna and London, 1986), Art Behind Barbed Wire (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, 2004) and Ben Uri's Forced Journeys: Artists in Exile in Britain, c.

1933-45 (London, Isle of Man and Birkenhead, 2009-10). Hugo Dachinger died in 1995. In 2012 the Austrian Cultural Forum held the first UK Dachinger retrospective. His work is held in the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool and the Manx Museum, Isle of Man.

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• Type: Painting
• Production Technique: mixed media
• Subject: Nudes
• Original/Licensed Reproduction: Original
• Artist: Hugo Dachinger
• Year of Production: 1942