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Constantinople. Golden Horn, 1911
Constantinople. Golden Horn
1911
Gouache on paper
36.2×50.1 cm
Artists
- Oskar Laske
(Czernowitz/Chernivtsi 1874–1951 Vienna)
Unfortunately not on display at the moment
The painter Oskar Laske (1874–1951) derived most of his inspiration from his travels. Almost every year, he embarked on extended tours through all of Europe, the Middle East and North Africa. Before the outbreak of World War I, in 1911, Laske visited Greece and Turkey, where he captured this harbor scene on the Golden Horn. From an elevated vantage point, the artist painted a spacious square filled with a large crowd. The figures appear only as outlines. Behind the masts of the ships, we see the view of Istanbul with its mosques and minarets losing themselves in the hazy distance. By means of loose brushstrokes and watery glazing, Laske managed to capture the scene’s spatiality and atmosphere with sublime skill.
Object data
- Artist/author
- Oskar Laske
- Title
- Constantinople. Golden Horn
- Date
- 1911
- Art movement
- Hagenbund, Expressionism
- Category
- Graphic work
- Material/technique
- Gouache on paper
- Dimensions
- 36.2×50.1 cm
- Signature
- Signed lower right using gouache: O. Laske; designated lower center using pencil: Konstantinopel Goldenes Horn
- Credit line
- Leopold Museum, Vienna, Inv. 2386
- Inventory access
- Contributed to the Leopold Museum-Privatstiftung in 1994
- Selection of Reference works
- Linie und Form. 100 Meisterzeichnungen aus der Sammlung Leopold, hrsg. von Franz Smola/Fritz Koreny, Wien 2014 (Ausst.-Kat. Leopold Museum, Wien, 23.05.2014–20.10.2014).
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