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Pieta (Poster for the Kunstschau) - Oskar Kokoschka
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A striking 1909 Expressionist lithograph by Oskar Kokoschka, featuring a raw, emotive interpretation of the Pieta for the Vienna Kunstschau.
This lithographic poster, created by Oskar Kokoschka in 1909, advertises the Sommer-Theater at the Vienna Kunstschau. The composition depicts a Pieta, a traditional subject showing the Virgin Mary cradling the body of Christ. Kokoschka subverts the classical serenity of this theme, replacing it with the raw, jagged emotional intensity characteristic of early Austrian Expressionism.
The figures are rendered with stark, skeletal forms and exaggerated gestures. The body of the male figure is painted in a visceral, blood-red hue, contrasting sharply against the pale, almost ghostly skin of the female figure. The background is a dark, vertical arrangement that suggests a shallow, claustrophobic space. Above the figures, the artist's name is printed in bold, block-like lettering, while the lower section contains the event details in a similar, hand-drawn typeface. The inclusion of a moon and a crescent shape adds a celestial, yet unsettling, quality to the scene.
Kokoschka was a central figure in the Viennese avant-garde during this period. His work often explored themes of psychological tension and human vulnerability. This poster demonstrates his ability to integrate graphic design with fine art, using the medium to communicate the dramatic nature of the theatrical performances it promoted. The heavy, expressive lines and the stark colour palette reflect the artist's rejection of academic conventions. By focusing on the physical and emotional agony of the subjects, Kokoschka forces the viewer to confront the raw reality of the human condition. This piece remains a significant example of how early twentieth-century artists utilised commercial formats to disseminate their aesthetic vision to a wider public audience in Vienna.
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Pieta (Poster for the Kunstschau) - Oskar Kokoschka
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From $29.00 USD
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From $29.00 USD
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Fine Art Poster / A4 (21x29.7 cm) / -
Artist Biography
Oskar Kokoschka
Kokoschka proposed to Alma Mahler within twenty-four hours of meeting her in 1912. When she later had an abortion, he pocketed a bloodied cotton pad from the procedure, saying it was his only child and always would be. He painted The Bride of the Wind (1913-14) as a double portrait of the two of them, then sold it to buy his own horse before volunteering for the First World War.
He was born in 1886 in Pochlarn, Austria. He was shot through the head in Ukraine and bayoneted in the chest in Russia. He survived both.
After the war, he commissioned a Munich dollmaker named Hermine Moos to create a life-size replica of Alma, sending detailed instructions about the feel of her skin and the weight of her body. Moos covered the figure in feathers instead. Kokoschka eventually staged a public execution: he decapitated the doll and smashed a bottle of wine over its head on his lawn. The police arrived the next morning, thinking he had murdered a woman.
The Nazis declared him a degenerate artist. He fled Czechoslovakia for London after the Munich Agreement and became a British citizen in 1947. His Expressionist portraits are among the most psychologically penetrating of the twentieth century: raw, agitated surfaces that seem to expose the sitter's interior state. He lived to ninety-four.
He was born in 1886 in Pochlarn, Austria. He was shot through the head in Ukraine and bayoneted in the chest in Russia. He survived both.
After the war, he commissioned a Munich dollmaker named Hermine Moos to create a life-size replica of Alma, sending detailed instructions about the feel of her skin and the weight of her body. Moos covered the figure in feathers instead. Kokoschka eventually staged a public execution: he decapitated the doll and smashed a bottle of wine over its head on his lawn. The police arrived the next morning, thinking he had murdered a woman.
The Nazis declared him a degenerate artist. He fled Czechoslovakia for London after the Munich Agreement and became a British citizen in 1947. His Expressionist portraits are among the most psychologically penetrating of the twentieth century: raw, agitated surfaces that seem to expose the sitter's interior state. He lived to ninety-four.
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