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Poster for the Wedekind Week, 1912

Leopold Museum,
Vienna
Lithograph on paper
94.5×62.8 cm

Artists

  • Oskar Kokoschka

    (Pöchlarn 1886–1980 Montreux)

Unfortunately not on display at the moment
Oskar Kokoschka (1886–1980) chose a portrait of the actress Helene Ritscher (1888–1964) as the motif for his poster promoting the Wedekind Week in 1912. The portrait shows the young woman as a half figure, her gaze averted from the observers and her left hand raised to her breast. The artist breaks up the composition with broad lines that are hastily drawn over the portrait. Ritscher had played the role of “Woman” at the world premiere of Kokoschka’s dramatic comedy Murderer, Hope of Women at the 1909 Internationale Kunstschau in Vienna.

AS, 2023

Object data

Artist/author
  • Oskar Kokoschka
Title
Poster for the Wedekind Week
Date
1912
Art movement
Expressionism
Category
Graphic work
Material​/technique
Lithograph on paper
Dimensions
94.5×62.8 cm
Credit line
Leopold Museum, Vienna, Inv. 688
Inventory access
Contributed to the Leopold Museum-Privatstiftung in 1994
Selection of Reference works
  • 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.
  • 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).
  • Hans Maria Wingler/Friedrich Welz: Oskar Kokoschka. Das druckgraphische Werk, Salzburg 1975.
Catalogue raisonne
  • Weidinger/Strobl 2008: 378
  • Wingler/Welz 1975: 34
Keywords
woman/girlposterletters/alphabet/scriptportrait of actor/actressadvertisingtheatre/theatrical performance

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Provenance

Provenance research
Leopold Museum i
Dr. Rudolf Leopold, Wien (o.D.);
Leopold Museum-Privatstiftung, Wien (seit 1994).

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woman/girlposterletters/alphabet/scriptportrait of actor/actressadvertisingtheatre/theatrical performance

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