Yvette Guilbert. Page from the Portfolio Menschenköpfe [Human Heads], 1916

Leopold Museum,
Vienna

Yvette Guilbert. Page from the Portfolio Menschenköpfe [Human Heads]
1916

Lithograph on paper

42×30.3 cm

Oskar Kokoschka
(Pöchlarn 1886–1980 Montreux)
Verlag der Sturm / Berlin

Unfortunately not on display at the moment

In 1916, Herwarth Walden’s (1878−1941) publishing company Der Sturm issued the portfolio Menschenköpfe [Human Heads], containing 15 etchings based on drawings by Oskar Kokoschka, some of which had also been reproduced in Walden’s magazine of the same name. The portraits show the protagonists of Modernism as well as loyal companions of the artist.
Yvette Guilbert (1865–1944) was a French actress and singer who performed internationally and was portrayed by various artists, including Medardo Rosso (1858–1928), Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864–1901) and Oskar Kokoschka (1886–1980). Vienna’s enfant terrible saw the singer at a performance in Berlin in 1911 and subsequently created a graphic portrait of her. Kokoschka shows a disillusioned, exhausted woman. He does not include the black gloves that had become Guilbert’s trademark.

AS, 2023

Object data

Artist/author

Oskar KokoschkaGND
Verlag der Sturm / Berlin

Title

Yvette Guilbert. Page from the Portfolio Menschenköpfe [Human Heads]

Date

1916

Art movement

Expressionism

Category

Graphic work

Material/technique

Lithograph on paper

Dimensions

42×30.3 cm

Credit line

Leopold Museum, Vienna, Inv. 6578 09

Inventory access

Accession 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).
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).

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