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Tabor, c. 1930

Leopold Museum,
Vienna
Gouache on paper
34.2×45 cm

Artists

  • Oskar Laske

    (Chernivtsi 1874–1951 Vienna)

Unfortunately not on display at the moment
In this gouache, Oskar Laske (1874–1951) depicted the view of a busy square in the South Bohemian city of Tabor. Houses and churches provide the architectural backdrop to the animated activity in this small town populated by horses, carriages, tents and well wrapped up people. The inhabitants are captured in a cursory manner, while the sense of dynamic and busyness, though palpable, appears somewhat deferred. The rendering’s gray atmosphere emanates a sense of the dreariness that a cold day holds for poor people. The commercial and tradesmen’s town had seen better days. Following World War I and the end of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1918, Tabor was part of newly founded Czechoslovakia until 1939. With this everyday scene in Tabor, created sometime in the 1930s, Oskar Laske showed his flair for the vivid observation of his time.

Object data

Artist/author
Title
Tabor
Date
c. 1930
Art movement
Hagenbund, Expressionism
Category
Graphic work
Material​/technique
Gouache on paper
Dimensions
34.2×45 cm
Signature
Designated and signed lower left: Tabor O. Laske
Credit line
Leopold Museum, Vienna, Inv. 2099
Inventory access
Contributed to the Leopold Museum-Privatstiftung in 1994
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Provenance

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