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Reclining Female Nude with Bent Legs, c. 1915

Leopold Museum,
Vienna
Indelible pencil blended with water on paper
18.2×27.3 cm

Artists

  • Anton Hanak

    (Brno 1875–1934 Vienna)

Unfortunately not on display at the moment
A reclining female nude, her legs bent, stretches horizontally across the image space. The depicted illustrates the motion of stretching in a convincing and expressive manner. Alongside his work as a sculptor, the Austrian artist Anton Hanak (1875–1934) created an eminent graphic oeuvre. Focusing primarily on the human figure, the graphic works, showing singular nudes, were executed as studies for his three-dimensional works. Anton Hanak drew the powerful contours of his figures with indelible pencil, the very tool he used for copying his designs for his architectural sculptures. Mixed with water, he molded the three-dimensional surface of the body by means of lighter and darker watery stains. This technique merges coincidence and intent, investing the bluish-purple female nude with a unique vividness.

AK, 2023

Object data

Artist/author
Title
Reclining Female Nude with Bent Legs
Date
c. 1915
Art movement
Expressionism
Category
Graphic work
Material​/technique
Indelible pencil blended with water on paper
Dimensions
18.2×27.3 cm
Credit line
Leopold Museum, Vienna, Inv. 1253
Inventory access
Contributed to the Leopold Museum-Privatstiftung in 1994
Keywords
nudewoman/girlundressed womanlying on the back with uplifted upper part of the bodylying figure (fem.)stretching (movement of the human body)(nude) female figure

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Provenance

Provenance research
Leopold Museum i

Nachlass Anton Hanak, Wien;
Walter Hanak, Wien (1934); (1)
Dr. Rudolf Leopold, Wien (o.D.);
Leopold Museum-Privatstiftung, Wien (seit 1994).

  1. Datenbank des Leopold Museums, telefonische Auskunft von Dipl.-Ing. Erich Gusel Hanakmuseum, Langenzersdorf vom 06.11.2003.

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nudewoman/girlundressed womanlying on the back with uplifted upper part of the bodylying figure (fem.)stretching (movement of the human body)(nude) female figure