Lear and His Men Leaving Goneril’s Castle – Act I Scene V. From the Portfolio King Lear, No. 157 of 275, 1963

Leopold Museum,
Vienna

Lear and His Men Leaving Goneril’s Castle – Act I Scene V. From the Portfolio King Lear, No. 157 of 275
1963

Lithograph on paper

45.3×35.5 cm

Unfortunately not on display at the moment

Oskar Kokoschka (1886–1980) created literary illustrations not only as part of his early work but also in his late artistic period. The artist, who had read plays by William Shakespeare (1564–1616) when he was still in school, intensively explored the Bard’s play King Lear once more in 1963, creating these illustrations for it within a few months early in the year. The narrative spans 16 graphic works and follows Lear’s growing desperation, with which the artist personally identified, as well as the King’s fate of dying together with his daughters: Portrait of King Lear; Lear; Edmund; Edgar; Lear, Regan, Goneril; Lear; Learn and Fool; Gloucester Led by an Old Man; Goneril and Edmund; Enter with Drum and Colours Cordelia and Soldiers; Gloucester and Edgar; Cordelia; Edgar and Edmund Fight; Lear with Cordelia in His Arms and Lear with the Body of Cordelia.

AS, 2023

Object data

Artist/author

Title

Lear and His Men Leaving Goneril’s Castle – Act I Scene V. From the Portfolio King Lear, No. 157 of 275

Date

1963

Art movement

Expressionism

Category

Graphic work

Material/technique

Lithograph on paper

Dimensions

45.3×35.5 cm

Signature

Signed lower right: OKokoschka

Credit line

Leopold Museum, Vienna, Inv. 6565

Inventory access

Accession 2020 2021

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).
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.

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Galerie Schöneck, Riehen, Schweiz (o.D.); (1)
Leopold Museum-Privatsiftung, Wien (seit 2021)

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