Sepp Hodlmoser

(1923 - 1967)

Sepp Hodlmoser was a painter.
Based on ArtValue.ca records, Sepp Hodlmoser's estimated art value is C$2,000 (*)

Sepp Hodlmoser's work could be available for sale at public auction with prices in the range of C$1,000 - C$2,500, or even much higher.

From ArtValue.ca records, the highest price paid at auction for a mixed media work attributed to Sepp Hodlmoser (1923-1967) was C$1,829 - paid for "Untitled" at Saskatchewan NAC in Regina on Sun, Sep 24, 2023.
ArtValue.ca has 6 auction art sale records for their mixed media results, with prices in the range of C$1,000 to C$2,500.

Joseph Sepp Hodlmoser was born in 1923 in Salzburg, Austria, where his father was steward of the Hohensalzburg Fortress. Growing up in isolation, with his accommodations and his art studio in the castle, led Hodlmoser to be quite eccentric and nonconformist. He was an autodidact and self taught as an artist. Like Jean-Michel Basquiat a generation later, Hodlmoser was in every way divergent from the art establishment, working with non-traditional materials, rejecting technical and aesthetic traditions, and creating a polarizing body of work. He "conquered modernity on his own terms" said Nicholas Schaffer, curator at the Salzburg Museum, when noting that without Hodlmoser, "Salzburg Modernism would be lacking a strong and refreshing colour." Sepp Hodlmoser fell ill with yellow fever during World War II, while a prisoner of the Soviet Union, and poor health affected him throughout his life. In the mid 1960s he was stricken with leukaemia, and he died in Salzburg, in 1967. His artistic creative period lasted a mere twelve years.

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