Wool tapestry after the series of lithographs from 1906-1908
Italy, 1976
After Oskar Kokoschka (1886-1980) – Austrian painter, graphic artist and illustrator
With the embroidered initials ‘OK’
Manufactured at workshop Muhelyart, Milan
Catalog raisonné: compare Wingler/Welz 23
According to current owner the tapestry was inspected by Mrs. Bernadette Reinold, Oskar Kokoschka Zentrum, Vienna
Dimensions: ca. 235 x 200 cm
Good condition
Beautiful tapestry after a motif from the artist's book ‘Die träumenden Knaben’, which is one of the earliest graphic works by Oskar Kokoschka
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Estimate by Auctionata Expert: 5,000 Euro

This large-scale tapestry was designed after Oskar Kokoschka’s series ‘Die träumenden Knaben’, which he created between 1906 and 1908. The lithographs, illustrating Kokoschka's own poems, were published as a book by the Wiener Werkstätte in 1908. These early graphic works by the artist are a wonderful example of Viennese Art Nouveau. 70 years later the workshop Muhelyart in Milan, whose owner was the famous Kokoschka admirer and collector Reinhold Count Bethusy-Huc, created colorful tapestries after the representations.



Condition:

The tapestry is overall in good condition with slight soiling to the lighter areas and a faintly water-stained and foxmarked reverse soiled reverse. It measures approximately 235 x 200 cm.



Oskar Kokoschka (1886-1980)

Kokoschka was born in Pöchlarn but grew up in Vienna. Thanks to the intercession of Carl Otto Czeschka (1878-1960), Kokoschka was allowed to study at the arts school where he stayed from 1905 until 1909. He moved to Berlin in 1910 where he illustrated the expressionist magazine Der Sturm and had a huge exhibition in Paul Cassirer’s gallery. Back in Vienna, he met Alma Mahler, yet when their tumultuous affair ended, Kokoschka voluntarily joined the military service. He got injured and spent the rest of the war as a war painter. He was named a professor in Dresden in 1919 and stayed there until 1924. With the beginning of the Nazi regime, Kokoschka had to flee to Prague after he was named, „The most degenerated amongst the degenerated“, and, “Hitler’s artistic enemy No. 1”. TheOskar Kokoschka Bund was founded in Prague with the aim of contradicting the ‘artistic’ machinations of the National Socialists and to support Kokoschka. In 1938, Kokoschka fled to England and became a British citizen in 1946 (he only re-accepted the Austrian citizenship in 1975). He founded theSchule des Sehens, an international fine arts summer academy in Salzburg and moved to Switzerland in 1953. Kokoschka participated in the documenta I, II and III and received many honours and awards. Regular exhibitions are held in his birthplace in Pöchlarn. Paintings by Kokoschka are today in the most important museums for modern art in Austria and Germany, but also in the National Gallery of Scotland and the National Gallery in Prague as well as in the Museum of Modern Art in New York. (fea)

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