Waldlandschaft

(possibly: Kien Josef or Kienlechner Josef)
He studied painting under Leo von König from 1919, and under Carl Hofer at the Academy of Arts in Berlin 1920-1923. Founder member of the Innsbruck Secession 1925-26 and became friends with the group behind Der Brenner magazine. Initially influenced by Cubism and the École de Paris, after stays in Paris, Kien's painting developed (still lifes, mosaics, stained glass windows) from the 1950s from figurative representations to abstract, airy and colourful compositions.