Oskar Kokoschka and Alma Mahler. A Multi-facetted Amour fou Reflected in the Arts
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Verlag, Ort, Datum
Museum Folkwang, Essen, Essen, NW, Deutschland, 2025
Schlagwörter
Kunstgeschichte, Kulturgeschichte, Zeitgeschichte
ISBN/ISSN/ISMN, DOI
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- ISBN: 978-3-9826137-5-8
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Exhibition catalogue - Exhibition "Woman in Blue. Oskar Kokoschka and Alma Mahler" Museum Folkwang, Essen, March 20, 2025 - June 25, 2025 In Vienna at the beginning of the 20th century, the young painter Oskar Kokoschka fell in love with Alma Mahler, a well-known salon hostess in Viennese society and widow of the composer Gustav Mahler. The obsessive love that Oskar Kokoschka developed for Alma Mahler within a very short time found expression in paintings, drawings, fans and a mural. He reached the peak of this creative obsession around 1919, when he had a life-size doll modelled on Alma Mahler made by the doll maker Hermine Moos. Woman in Blue (1919) was the first painting to take the doll as its subject and marked a turning point in Kokoschka’s painting style. For the first time in over 30 years, Kokoschka’s works inspired by Alma Mahler are united in one exhibition. This cycle is both a contemporary testimony and a major expressionist work; it shows the drama of the love affair and tells of its reverberations. The exhibition is part of the joint project Double portraits – Alma Mahler-Werfel in the Mirror of Viennese Modernism. Fig. Oskar Kokoschka, Woman in Blue, 1919, Staatsgalerie Stuttgar, © Fondation Oskar Kokoschka / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2024,
Band, Seiten
Histories of a Collection V, 13-29
Sprache, Format, Material, Ausgabe/Auflage
Englisch
Aktivitätenlisten
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- Musem Folkwang, Essen, Brohm, Anna: Oskar Kokoschka. Histories of a Collection V: Double Portrait Oskar Kokoschka and Alma Mahler. Museum Folkwang, Essen. 2025 -
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