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Boy in Blue Jacket, 1913

Leopold Museum,
Vienna
Oil on canvas
70.8×59.2 cm

Artists

  • Hans Böhler

    (Vienna 1884‒1961 Vienna)

Unfortunately not on display at the moment
Seen from slightly above, the artist portrays the Body in Blue Jacket in profile in this painting of 1913. Hans Böhler (1884–1961) probably met his model on one of the several travels of Japan, China, or North and South America he made between 1910 and 1914. The painting looks like a snapshot trying to convey without prettifying the mood and personality of the boy portrayed. He looks tiredly to the side, out of the picture space. Böhler envelops him in the half-dark of the room like in an aura. Had he been invited to the child’s home? His works were frequently described as exceptionally lighthearted. This one, though, is imbued with a certain gloominess and melancholy.

RR, 2021

Object data

Artist/author
  • Hans Böhler
Title
Boy in Blue Jacket
Date
1913
Art movement
Expressionism
Category
Painting
Material​/technique
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
70.8×59.2 cm
Signature
Monogrammed lower right: HB
Credit line
Leopold Museum, Vienna, Inv. 4137
Inventory access
Contributed to the Leopold Museum-Privatstiftung in 1994
Keywords
man/boysitting figuredwellingjacket/coat/cape

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Provenance

Provenance research
Leopold Museum i

Rudolf Haybach, Wien (o.D.); (1)
Dr. Rudolf Leopold, Wien (vor 1981-1994); (2)
Leopold Museum-Privatstiftung, Wien (seit 1994).

  1. Datenbank des Leopold Museums, Dr. Patricia Spiegelfeld, Eintrag vom 06.11.2003
  2. Otto Breicha, Hans Böhler. Gemälde und Graphik, Salzburg 1981, S. 119, Nr. 71 (Tafel 71)

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