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Portrait of Walter Hasenclever, c. 1918

Leopold Museum,
Vienna
Lithograph on paper
81×61.3 cm

Artists

  • Oskar Kokoschka

    (Pöchlarn 1886–1980 Montreux)

Unfortunately not on display at the moment
Oskar Kokoschka (1886–1980) and the Expressionist writer and poet Walter Hasenclever (1890–1940) met in Dresden, where the artist recovered from his service in World War I and where he would later settle permanently. Despite his initial enthusiasm for the War, Kokoschka eventually became a pacifist and his social life in Dresden played a key role in this development. In his painting Friends dating from 1917/18, the artist painted himself among his Dresden circle of friends and acquaintances including the actress Käthe Richter (1893–1969), Ivar von Lücken (1874–1935), his physician Fritz Neuberger (1877, deported in 1942) and Hasenclever. The graphic portrait was created around the same time and shows the writer with his gaze averted from the observers, in the same calm and pensive pose as in the painting.

AS, 2023

Object data

Artist/author
  • Oskar Kokoschka
Title
Portrait of Walter Hasenclever
Date
c. 1918
Art movement
Expressionism
Category
Graphic work
Material​/technique
Lithograph on paper
Dimensions
81×61.3 cm
Signature
Signed lower right: OKokoschka
Credit line
Leopold Museum, Vienna, Inv. 3022
Inventory access
Contributed to the Leopold Museum-Privatstiftung in 1994
Selection of Reference works
  • Wien 1900. Aufbruch in die Moderne, hrsg. von Hans-Peter Wipplinger, Wien 2019 (Ausst.-Kat. Leopold Museum, Wien, ab 15.03.2019).
  • Oskar Kokoschka. Expressionist, Migrant, Europäer, hrsg. von Cathérine Hug/Heike Eipeldauer, Heidelberg 2018 (Ausst.-Kat. Kunsthaus Zürich, 14.12.2018–10.03.2019; Leopold Museum, Wien, 06.04.2019–08.07.2019).
  • Kokoschka. Das Ich im Brennpunkt, hrsg. von Tobias G. Natter/Franz Smola, Wien 2013 (Ausst. Kat. Leopold Museum, Wien, 04.10.2013–27.01.2014).
  • Die nackte Wahrheit. Klimt, Schiele, Kokoschka und andere Skandale, hrsg. von Tobias G. Natter/Max Hollein, München 2005 (Ausst.-Kat. Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, 28.01.2005-24.01.2005; Leopold Museum, Wien, 31.05.2005-22.08.2005).
  • Hans Maria Wingler/Friedrich Welz: Oskar Kokoschka. Das druckgraphische Werk, Salzburg 1975.
Catalogue raisonne
  • Wingler/Welz 1975: 118
Keywords
man/boyportraitwriter/authorportrait of a writerpostures and gestures of the hand

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Provenance

Provenance research
Leopold Museum i

Auktion: 07.06.1974, Hauswedell und Nolte Hamburg, Auktion Nr. 199, Moderne Kunst, Los Nr 1002;
Dr. Rudolf Leopold, Wien (1974-1994); (1)
Leopold Museum-Privatstiftung, Wien (seit 1994).

  1. Hauswedell & Nolte, Katalog zur 199. Auktion, Hamburg 1974, S. 302

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