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Female Nude from Behind, c. 1913

Leopold Museum,
Vienna
Oil on canvas
75×50 cm

Artists

  • Koloman Moser

    (Vienna 1868–1918 Vienna)

Unfortunately not on display at the moment
After he had left the Wiener Werkstätte in 1907, Koloman Moser (1868–1918) again focused more strongly on painting, his original métier. The year in which this painting was created marks a turning point in his painted oeuvre: Inspired by a visit to the Swiss painter Ferdinand Hodler (1853–1918), Moser turned to Symbolist paintings with allegorical and mythological themes from 1913. Here, Moser presents a female nude from behind rendered in thoroughly modeled plasticity against an undefined brownish background. The female figure raises both her arms symmetrically and is outlined by purple contours. The symmetrical posture of the nude, the frontal perspective and the auratic contours betray Hodler’s influence. The collection of the Leopold Museum also contains another female nude from behind in similar coloration: Judith and Holofernes.

LVD, 2024

Object data

Artist/author
  • Koloman Moser
Title
Female Nude from Behind
Date
c. 1913
Art movement
Secession
Category
Painting
Material​/technique
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
75×50 cm
Credit line
Leopold Museum, Vienna, Inv. 581
Inventory access
Contributed to the Leopold Museum-Privatstiftung in 1994
Selection of Reference works
  • Gerd Pichler: Koloman Moser. Die Gemälde. Werkverzeichnis, Wien 2012.
  • Koloman Moser 1868-1818, hrsg. von Rudolf Leopold/Gerd Pichler, Wien 2007 (Ausst.-Kat. Leopold Museum, Wien, 25.05.2007-10.09.2007).
Catalogue raisonne
  • Pichler 2012: 134
Keywords
nudewoman/girlstanding figure (fem.)postures and gestures of arms/handsundressed womanthe (nude) human figurehead turned sideways (fem.)

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Provenance

Provenance research
Leopold Museum i

Nachlass des Künstlers, Wien;
Editha Hauska, Wien (1918); (1)
Kunstverlag Wolfrum, Wien (1920); (2)
Editha Hauska , Wien (o.D.); (3)
Privatbesitz (1969); (4)
Dr. Rudolf Leopold, Wien (vor 1980-1994); (5)
Leopold Museum-Privatstiftung, Wien (1994).

  1. Rückseite: Nachlassstempel „Koloman Moser“ und Nachlass-Nummer „122“.
  2. Kunstverlag Wolfrum, Katalog zu “Kolo Moser-Nachlass-Ausstellung. 23. November - 15. Dezember 1920.”, Wien 1920, Nr. 122 „Weiblicher Akt (gelb, violett)“
  3. Gerd Pichler, Eberhard Kohlbacher (Hg.), Koloman Moser. Die Gemälde, Wien 2012, S. 136, WV 134.
  4. „Koloman Moser 1868 - 1918. Gemälde, Graphik“. Katalog der Neuen Galerie Graz am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz 1969, Nr. 40.
  5. Lieferschein für Leihgaben an das Rheinische Landesmuseum, Bonn vom 08.07.1980

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nudewoman/girlstanding figure (fem.)postures and gestures of arms/handsundressed womanthe (nude) human figurehead turned sideways (fem.)