Self-Portrait from Two Sides as a Painter. Poster for the Kokoschka exhibition held at Kunstsalon Wolfsberg, Zurich, 1923

Leopold Museum,
Vienna © Fondation Oskar Kokoschka/Bildrecht,
Vienna 2022

Self-Portrait from Two Sides as a Painter. Poster for the Kokoschka exhibition held at Kunstsalon Wolfsberg, Zurich
1923

Color lithograph on paper

127.8×91 cm

Oskar Kokoschka
(Pöchlarn 1886–1980 Montreux)

Unfortunately not on display at the moment

During his time as a professor at the Dresden Academy, Oskar Kokoschka (1886–1980) created the 1923 colored chalk lithograph *Self-Portrait from Two Sides as a Painter *. The depiction is strongly reminiscent of Cubist forms of expression and of early works created by the artist in 1910 for the magazine Der Sturm. Kokoschka chose this self-portrait as the poster for his solo exhibition held in the autumn of 1923 at the Zurich art salon Wolfsberg. Under the emerging National Socialist regime, Kokoschka’s works were defamed as “degenerate”, destroyed and displayed in the propaganda exhibition Degenerate Art. Along with rabble-rousing texts, the accompanying catalogue featured three works by the artist, including this self-portrait.

AS, 2021

Object data

Artist/author

Oskar KokoschkaGND

Title

Self-Portrait from Two Sides as a Painter. Poster for the Kokoschka exhibition held at Kunstsalon Wolfsberg, Zurich

Date

1923

Art movement

Expressionism

Category

Graphic work

Material/technique

Color lithograph on paper

Dimensions

127.8×91 cm

Signature

Designated upper left: O. KOKOSCHKA; designated upper right: SEPT. OKT. 23; signed lower center: OKokoschka; designated lower center: GEOEFFNET 9-12 und 2-6 SONNTAGS 10-12 UHR KUNSTSALON WOLFSBERG 109 BEDERSTR. ZÜRICH 2 "WOLFSBERG" ZÜRICH

Credit line

Leopold Museum, Vienna, Inv. 6069

Inventory access

Accession 2017

Selection of Reference works

Wien 1900. Aufbruch in die Moderne, hrsg. von Hans-Peter Wipplinger, Wien 2019 (Ausst.-Kat. Leopold Museum, Wien, ab 15.03.2019).
Oskar Kokoschka. Expressionist, Migrant, Europäer, hrsg. von Cathérine Hug/Heike Eipeldauer, Heidelberg 2018 (Ausst.-Kat. Kunsthaus Zürich, 14.12.2018–10.03.2019; Leopold Museum, Wien, 06.04.2019–08.07.2019).
Kokoschka. Das Ich im Brennpunkt, hrsg. von Tobias G. Natter/Franz Smola, Wien 2013 (Ausst. Kat. Leopold Museum, Wien, 04.10.2013–27.01.2014).
Alfred Weidinger/Alice Strobl: Oskar Kokoschka. Die Zeichnungen und Aquarelle 1897–1916, Salzburg 2008.
Die nackte Wahrheit. Klimt, Schiele, Kokoschka und andere Skandale, hrsg. von Tobias G. Natter/Max Hollein, München 2005 (Ausst.-Kat. Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, 28.01.2005-24.01.2005; Leopold Museum, Wien, 31.05.2005-22.08.2005).
Hans Maria Wingler/Friedrich Welz: Oskar Kokoschka. Das druckgraphische Werk, Salzburg 1975.

Catalogue raisonne