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Lady in White Hat, 1916

Leopold Museum,
Vienna
Oil on canvas
70.5×58.5 cm

Artists

  • Hans Böhler

    (Vienna 1884‒1961 Vienna)

Unfortunately not on display at the moment
Hans Böhler (1884–1961) interlaces the bluish white flat shades of the elegant Lady in White Hat with the blue-green colored areas of the highly abstracted lush vegetation behind her. In 1916, he navigated in style between Secessionist flatness and expressive coloration. The lady’s hat shades her relaxed features. Her face is gently turned sideways from full frontality as her interest seems to be going for things outside the picture. Still, she stays quietly seated amid the blue-green harmony that surrounds her. Böhler coyly eroticizes the woman portrayed by emphasizing her red lips, long neck, a button over her breast, and her decorative hatband.

RR, 2021

Object data

Artist/author
  • Hans Böhler
Title
Lady in White Hat
Date
1916
Art movement
Expressionism
Category
Painting
Material​/technique
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
70.5×58.5 cm
Signature
Monogrammed upper right
Credit line
Leopold Museum, Vienna, Inv. 603
Inventory access
Contributed to the Leopold Museum-Privatstiftung in 1994
Keywords
woman/girlportraitfashionable womanjacket/coat/capehatornaments/jewels

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Provenance

Provenance research
Leopold Museum i

Greta Shapiro, San Anselmo, Kalifornien, USA (vor 1986);
Dr. Rudolf Leopold, Wien (1986-1994); (1)
Leopold Museum-Privatstiftung, Wien (seit 1994).

  1. Archiv des Leopold Museums, Greta Shapiro an Dr. Rudolf Leopold vom 15.07.1986

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