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Girl in Blue Headscarf (Beatrice from Jamaica), 1914

Leopold Museum,
Vienna
Oil on canvas
70×58 cm

Artists

  • Hans Böhler

    (Vienna 1884‒1961 Vienna)

Unfortunately not on display at the moment
A dynasty of steel industrialists, the Böhler family counted among the most important art patrons of fin-de-siècle Vienna. Hans Böhler (1884–1961) therefore not only received support for his career as an artist but was also given the possibility to go on numerous travels. In the course of traveling through Japan, China as well as North and South America, he painted the Girl in Blue Headscarf in 1914 in Jamaica. Böhler uses thick outlines to separate areas of unmixed color. The picture detail he chose was a classical portrait type in that he placed the protagonist as a half-length figure in the center of the picture. Particularly impressive is the casual and undaunted posture of the little girl by the name of Beatrice, making her look like a resolute adult. In the perspective chosen, she perkily looks up to viewers.

Object data

Artist/author
  • Hans Böhler
Title
Girl in Blue Headscarf (Beatrice from Jamaica)
Date
1914
Art movement
Expressionism
Category
Painting
Material​/technique
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
70×58 cm
Signature
Monogrammed lower right: HB
Credit line
Leopold Museum, Vienna, Inv. 699
Inventory access
Contributed to the Leopold Museum-Privatstiftung in 1994
Keywords

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Provenance

Provenance research
Leopold Museum i

Nachlass Hans Böhler, Wien (1961); (1)
Federica Beer-Monti, New York (ab 1961); (2)
Dr. Rudolf Leopold, Wien (o.D.);
Leopold Museum-Privatstiftung, Wien (seit 1994)

  1. Nachlassstempel: Hans BÖHLER auf der Bildrückseite
  2. Martin Suppan, Hans Böhler. Leben und Werke, Wien 1990, S. 30 u. S. 147

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