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The Love Letter, n. d.

Leopold Museum,
Vienna
Oil on canvas
54.5×43.5 cm

Artists

  • Oskar Laske

    (Chernivtsi 1874–1951 Vienna)

Unfortunately not on display at the moment
The work shows two women of different ages sitting at a table in a dark, furnished room: The old lady points to a certain passage in the letter held by the young girl. She might be giving her a well-meaning interpretation of a particular line in the love letter or raising a concern. With this depiction, Oskar Laske (1874–1951) revisited a typical genre scene from the 19th century. Both the detailed rendering of the interior as well as the work’s moral aspect have a retrospective character. The painting might be from the artist’s early period, during which he schooled himself on works by other painters. For the trained architect Laske – who studied under Otto Wagner (1841–1918) at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts – was self-taught in the medium of painting.

Object data

Artist/author
Title
The Love Letter
Date
n. d.
Art movement
Hagenbund, Naturalism I Realism
Category
Painting
Material​/technique
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
54.5×43.5 cm
Signature
Signed lower right: O. Laske
Credit line
Leopold Museum, Vienna, Inv. 147
Inventory access
Contributed to the Leopold Museum-Privatstiftung in 1994
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Provenance

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