LOT 37:
Oskar Kokoschka's photolithograph, «Die ferne Insel»
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Oskar Kokoschka's photolithograph, «Die ferne Insel»
Oskar Kokoschka (1894-1980) was an Austrian expressionist artist, important for his relationship with the Vienna Secession and his apprenticeship with Gustav Klimt, but also for his rejection of «Jugendstil», drawing congruences with the Expressionist turn of his peers, as Egon Schiele. Kokoschka is one of the longest-lived artists born in the 19th century, and is also known for his historic romance with Alma Mahler, widow of the composer Gustav Mahler. He would only die in the 1980s, after a long career as a painter, draftsman, playwright, poet, teacher and designer. His works Die Windsbraut and the decorations for Cabaret Fledermaus stand out.
Oskar Kokoschka’s book Die träumenden Knaben (The dreaming boys) was the first graphic work by the Austrian artist, made when he was only 21 years old. The book was commissioned in 1907 by the Director of the Wiener Werkstätte (Vienna workshops), Fritz Wärndorfer, who had asked Kokoschka to design colour images for a children’s book. However, Kokoschka went beyond the brief and also wrote the story for Die träumenden Knaben, which was not so much a children’s tale as an autobiographical adolescent fantasy.
Measurement: | 22.3 x 24 cm |