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Falling Male Nude, 1919

Leopold Museum,
Vienna © Herbert Boeckl estate,
Vienna
Black chalk on paper
36.2×48.7 cm

Artists

  • Herbert Boeckl

    (Klagenfurt 1894–1966 Vienna)

Unfortunately not on display at the moment
His face covered, propped up on his left arm and holding on with his right hand, a slightly corpulent, apparently exhausted man seems to be trying to escape from a difficult situation. He seems to be caught in an object that is drawing him upwards or is fixed above him. He is writhing against it with all his strength and the momentum has seized his entire body. A torn piece of string, which seems to have entangled his foot, is still coiled around his right ankle. The young artist created numerous depictions of nudes in 1919 that show a characteristic shifting between stronger and more tender, slightly bow-shaped lines; the accentuation of the joints in dark, rounded shapes and the smudging of the black chalk in certain places is also typical of the artist’s work.

KJ, 2023

Object data

Artist/author
  • Herbert Boeckl
Title
Falling Male Nude
Date
1919
Art movement
Expressionism
Category
Graphic work
Material​/technique
Black chalk on paper
Dimensions
36.2×48.7 cm
Credit line
Leopold Museum, Vienna, Inv. 1257
Inventory access
Contributed to the Leopold Museum-Privatstiftung in 1994
Keywords
man/boynudeundressed manfallinglying on one side, with uplifted upper part of the body/leaning on the arm

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Provenance

Provenance research
Leopold Museum i

Nachlass Herbert Boeckl, Wien (1966);
Dr. Richard Boeckl, Mainz (vor 1978-1992); (1)
Dr. Rudolf Leopold, Wien (o.D.);
Leopold Museum-Privatstiftung, Wien (1994).

  1. Gaston Diehl, Herbert Boeckl. Aquarelle und Zeichnungen, Salzburg 1978, S. 24, Nr. 17 (Abb.); Edwin Lachnit, Herbert Boeckl. Das Bild des nackten Menschen, Salzburg 1992, Nr. 24 (Abb.)

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man/boynudeundressed manfallinglying on one side, with uplifted upper part of the body/leaning on the arm