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Tre Croci – Dolomite Landscape, 1913

Leopold Museum Vienna,
© Fondation Oskar Kokoschka/Bildrecht,
Vienna 2022
Oil on canvas
80×120.1 cm

Artists

  • Oskar Kokoschka

    (Pöchlarn 1886–1980 Montreux)

Currently on display at OG3
In August 1913, Oskar Kokoschka (1886–1980) and Alma Mahler (1879–1964) took a trip to the South Tyrolean Dolomites. Mahler later wrote in her memoires that their time there had been “devoted exclusively to his work”: “In the morning, we went into the thick forest, in search of the darkest green spots, and in a clearing we came across young horses at play, which instantly enchanted Kokoschka. We had taken his portfolio and crayons along – despite his crippling fear of being alone, he stayed behind, and the ensuing drawings are uniquely beautiful.” Saturated with numerous nuances of green and blue, and enriched in places with purple highlights, the imposing mountain scenery conveys a charged, dramatic impression that is reinforced by a note on a sketch reading “After the thunderstorm”.

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Object data

Artist/author
  • Oskar Kokoschka
Title
Tre Croci – Dolomite Landscape
Date
1913
Art movement
Expressionism
Category
Painting
Material​/technique
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
80×120.1 cm
Signature
Monogrammed lower left: OK
Credit line
Leopold Museum, Vienna, Inv. 624
Inventory access
Contributed to the Leopold Museum-Privatstiftung in 1994
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).
  • Wien 1900. Sammlung Leopold, hrsg. von Diethard Leopold/Peter Weinhäupl, Wien u.a. 2009.
  • 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).
  • Johann Winkler/Katharina Erling: Oskar Kokoschka. Die Gemälde 1906–1929, Salzburg 1995.
  • Fondation Oskar Kokoschka, Werkkatalog der Gemälde von Oskar Kokoschka, https://www.oskar-kokoschka.ch/de/1020/Online-Werkkatalog.
Catalogue raisonne
  • Winkler/Erling 1995: 93
  • oskar-kokoschka.ch: 1913/4
Keywords
landscape depictionNaturemountainstreehorseanimal-drawn vehicle (e.g. cab/carriage/coach)road/path

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Provenance

Provenance research
Leopold Museum i

Ludwig Prager, München (bis 1918);
Neue Staatsgalerie, München (1918-1937);
1937 in der Ausstellung “Entartete Kunst” in München gezeigt und 1940 eingetauscht;
Depot Schloss Schönhausen, Berlin (1937-1941); (1)
Bernhard A. Böhmer, Güstrow (1941-1945);
Peter Böhmer, Rostock / Hamburg (1945-1950);
Edgar Horstmann, Hamburg (ab 1950-1966); (2)
Dr. Rudolf Leopold, Wien (vor 1979-1994); (3)
Leopold Museum-Privatstiftung, Wien (1994).

  1. Fondation Oskar Kokoschka, Online-Werkkatalog, 1913/4 Dolomitenlandschaft Tre Croci
    https://mp-ria-45.zetcom.com/MpWeb-apVilleneuveFOK/v?mode=guest (29.10.2018)
  2. Sonja Niederacher, Dossier zu Oskar Kokoschka, Tre Croci – Dolomitenlandschaft, 1913 vom 04.01.2016; Ludwig Goldschneider, Oskar Kokoschka, Köln 1966, S. 76, Nr. 14.
  3. Archiv des Leopold Museums, Schreiben von Dr. Rainer Horstmann an Dr. Rudolf Leopold vom 04.05.1979
Decision of the Advisory Board (PDF)

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