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Exhibition at the Gallery St. Stephen, Vienna
1959 · Lithograph
24 x 17" (60.9 x 43.1 cm)
Museum of Modern Art
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Josef Mikl
Artist
PaintingConstructivism
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None documented
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1
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5
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- • Constructivism
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Lettering by Hand
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1962–1963
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Josef Mikl was an Austrian painter and printmaker whose abstract work emerged from the postwar reconstruction of Central European modernism. Working primarily in oil and graphic media, he developed a geometric language rooted in constructivist principles while remaining attuned to the expressive possibilities of color and mark-making. Mikl's practice bridged the formalist and gestural traditions of mid-century abstraction, positioning him among the significant voices in postwar Austrian art.
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Museum of Modern Art
New York, US
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