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Street Scene, 1930

Leopold Museum,
Vienna
Oil on canvas
77×87.5 cm

Artists

  • Robert Kohl

    (Vienna 1891-1944 concentration camp Blechhammer)

Unfortunately not on display at the moment
The Viennese painter Robert Kohl (1891–1944) rendered a modern metropolitan scene: Cars and busses are depicted driving along a broad street, with crowds of people walking in different directions in the foreground. Standing out from this crowd is a man on crutches on the right side of the street, who invests the carefree bustle with a socio-critical aspect. As in the cityscapes created by the German Expressionists, Kohl captured the activity in the metropolis with bold color accents, strong reflections of light and through a painterly-expressive dissolution of the contours. The tilt in the architectural perspective makes the facades appear as if they were teetering. This serves to emphasize the dynamic impression of the depiction as well as the fleetingness of the moment.

Object data

Artist/author
Title
Street Scene
Date
1930
Art movement
Expressionism, Hagenbund
Category
Painting
Material​/technique
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
77×87.5 cm
Credit line
Leopold Museum, Vienna, Inv. 661
Inventory access
Contributed to the Leopold Museum-Privatstiftung in 1994
Selection of Reference works
  • Zwischen den Kriegen. Österreichische Künstler 1918–1938, hrsg. von Rudolf Leopold, Wien 2007 (Ausst.-Kat. Leopold Museum, Wien, 21.09.2007-28.01.2008).
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