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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1949.137
People
Oskar Kokoschka, Austrian (Pöchlarn, Austria 1886 - 1980 Montreux, Switzerland)
Title
Portrait of the Poet Herwarth Walden
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1910
Culture
Austrian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/297480

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black ink over graphite on off-white wove paper, printed with a grid
Dimensions
actual: 28.4 x 22 cm (11 3/16 x 8 11/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: l.c. in black ink: OK
  • inscription: On verso, in black ink: ganzseitig druken/ Kopf moglichst nach vorne!!
  • label: removed from backing board: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum / Loan #352.94 Catalog #87 / Exhibition Oskar Kokoschka / Lender Albertina (Vienna) 55.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Nationalgalerie, Berlin (?-1937); removed from the collection by the National Socialist (Nazi) authorities, August 16,1937; [Bernhard Bohmer]. [Feigl Galleries, New York, New York], sold; to Fogg Art Museum, 1949.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Friends of Art, Archaeology and Music at Harvard Fund
Accession Year
1949
Object Number
1949.137
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Paul J. Sachs, Modern Prints and Drawings, Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. (New York, NY, 1954), pl. 142
  • Sidney Simon and Emily S. Rauh, 20th Century Master Drawings, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1963), no. 60, pl. 16
  • Heribert Hutter, Drawing: History and Technique, McGraw-Hill Book Company (New York and Toronto, 1968), pp. 66-67, ill. (b/w)
  • Charles Werner Haxthausen, The Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University, Abbeville Press (New York, NY, 1980), p. 136, repr.
  • Jane Glaubinger, "A Double-Sided Drawing by Ludwig Meidner", The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art (November 1982), LXIX, no. 9, pp. 297-307, p. 306, fig. 13
  • Kristin A. Mortimer and William G. Klingelhofer, Harvard University Art Museums: A Guide to the Collections, Harvard University Art Museums and Abbeville Press (Cambridge and New York, 1986), no. 383, p. 320, repr.
  • Emily D. Bilski, Berlin Metropolis: Jews and the New Culture 1890-1918, exh. cat., The Jewish Museum, New York and University of California Press (Berkeley and New York, 1999), fig. 16, p. 30; also unnumbered checklist inserted in catalogue
  • Dr. Tobias G. Natter, ed., Oskar Kokoschka: Early Portraits from Vienna and Berlin 1909-1914, exh. cat., Neue Galerie New York and Hamburger Kunsthalle (Hamburg/New York, 2002), repr. p. 187 (color) and p. 26, p. 184
  • Judith A. Bookbinder, Boston Modern: Figurative Expressionism as Alternative Modernism, University of New Hampshire Press and University Press of New England (Durham, NH/Hanover, NH and London, 2005), p. 34, fig. 1.2
  • Catherine Hug and Heike Eipeldauer, Oskar Kokoschka: Expressionist, Migrant, European. A Retrospective, exh. cat., Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft / Kunsthaus Zürich, Leopold Museum, and Kehrer Verlag Heidelberg (Vienna and Berlin, 2018), p. 98, fig. 1, ill. (b/w)

Exhibition History

  • 20th Century Master Drawings, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 11/06/1963 - 01/05/1964; University of Minnesota Art Gallery, Minneapolis, 02/03/1964 - 03/15/1964; Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/06/1964 - 05/24/1964
  • Oskar Kokoschka- The Portrait, Badischer Kunstverein Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, 08/21/1966 - 11/20/1966
  • Works from the 20th Century Collection of the Busch-Reisinger, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 06/15/1980 - 09/01/1980; Wildenstein Gallery, New York, New York, 09/23/1980 - 10/24/1980
  • 20th-Century Works on Paper from the Permanent Collection, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 09/07/1981 - 11/11/1981
  • Deutsche Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts aus dem Busch-Reisinger Museum, Stadtische Galerie im Stadelschen Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt, 10/23/1982 - 01/16/1983; Bauhaus-Archiv, Berlin 30, 02/10/1983 - 04/17/1983; Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, 05/08/1983 - 06/26/1983
  • Oskar Kokoschka. Das Frühwerk, Albertina Gallery, Vienna, 03/02/1994 - 05/23/1994; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 06/09/1994 - 08/24/1994
  • Berlin Metropolis: Jews and the New Culture 1890-1918, Jewish Museum, New York, 11/14/1999 - 04/23/2000

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