Leopold Museum,
Wien © Collection Richard Grubman
Wien © Collection Richard Grubman
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Female Nude with Mask Before the Mirror, 1907
Female Nude with Mask Before the Mirror
1907
Oil on canvas
88×70 cm
Artists
- Max Kurzweil
(Bzenec 1867–1916 Vienna)
Currently on display at OG4
Max Kurzweil (1867–1916) studied at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts, was a member of the Vienna Künstlerhaus as well as a founding member of the Vienna Secession. His seated nude in front of a mirror appears highly mysterious on account of the eye mask. The use of mirrors in paintings has a long tradition, and is meant to symbolize both vanity and transience. The oldest mirror is water. When the young Narcissus saw his mirror image in the water, he fell in love with his reflection. The seated young woman exhibits her flawless naked body and is looking at herself in the mirror. Her proud posture shows that she is aware of her beauty. But beauty is fleeting. The mask impedes this realization.
Object data
- Artist/author
- Max Kurzweil
- Title
- Female Nude with Mask Before the Mirror
- Date
- 1907
- Art movement
- Secession
- Category
- Painting
- Material/technique
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 88×70 cm
- Credit line of the permanent loan
- Collection Richard Grubman
- 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).
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