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Spanish Woman, 1919

Leopold Museum,
Vienna
Oil on canvas
79.5×70 cm

Artists

  • Hans Böhler

    (Vienna 1884‒1961 Vienna)

Unfortunately not on display at the moment
Sitting amidst vivaciously applied impasto swirls of color churning across the canvas is a Spanish Woman, painted 1919, with casual elegance, self-confident, in an abstract space of ochre and blue. One hand on her hip, the other one in a pointing gesture, she might as well be shown in the middle of a conversation with another person outside the picture. Comparing this work, for example, with Portrait of Isolde Ahlgrimm (Woman in White Blouse) by Josef Dobrowsky (1889–1964) brings out a typical characteristic of Hans Böhler’s (1884–1961) style even more clearly: Both women are portrayed sitting in similar posture in a room; unlike with most of his contemporaries, Böhler’s portraits radiate, aside from a noble attitude, lightheartedness and joie de vivre.

Object data

Artist/author
  • Hans Böhler
Title
Spanish Woman
Date
1919
Art movement
Expressionism
Category
Painting
Material​/technique
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
79.5×70 cm
Credit line
Leopold Museum, Vienna, Inv. 703
Inventory access
Contributed to the Leopold Museum-Privatstiftung in 1994
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Provenance

Provenance research
Leopold Museum i

Nachlass Hans Böhler, Wien (1961);
Auktion: 26.05.1979, Auktionshaus Hassfurther, Wien, Österreichische Kunst 1880-1945, Los Nr. 33 (Abb. 22a);
Dr. Rudolf Leopold, Wien (1979-1994); (1)
Leopold Museum-Privatstiftung, Wien (seit 1994).

  1. Galerie Hassfurther, Wien, Katalog zu Österreichische Kunst 1880-1945. Verkaufsausstellung und Versteigerung in der Secession, Wien 1979, S.10.

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