Hugo "Puck" Dachinger (Austrian)
Standing Female Nude
Signed and dated 1943
Pen, pastel, mixed media on paper
Size: 39cm x 52cm
Small professional repair to paper, see images attached
Unframed
 
Hugo Dachinger was a Painter, draughtsman and designer;
born Gmunden, Austria between Salzburg and Linz,
son of a draper; studied fine art in Leipzig 1929-32;
moved to Vienna in 1932 where he worked as a
window-dresser for the English firm Saville and Co
amongst others; invented and patented a system of
movable type in 1933; as an Austrian Jewish refugee
emigrated to England in 1938 sponsored by Saville and Co
and was shortly joined by his father and step-mother;
in June 1940 he was interned as an 'enemy alien'
at Huyton near Liverpool (June-early October 1940)
and then at the Mooragh Camp at Ramsey on the Isle of Man
(after 10 Oct 1940-January 1941); in November 1940 he held
an exhibition of his internment drawings 'Art Behind Barbed Wire'
in the camp; after his release in January 1941, he moved to
London where he held a second exhibition of his internment
drawings entitled 'Art Behind Wire' at the Redfern Gallery,
London in April 1941 which received critical attention;
died 2 December 1995.