37/internal/media/dispatcher/5246/fullPrague Harbour1936[Oskar Kokoschka]Oskar KokoschkaOil on canvasAls Kokoschka das Bild des Prager Flusshafens malt, lebt er bereits zwei Jahre in der Tschechei. Er hatte Wien aufgrund der politischen und wirtschaftlichen Verhältnisse im Jahr 1934 verlassen. Der Tod seiner Mutter und die spürbare Isolation vom internationalen Kunstgeschehen verstärkten seinen Entschluss, Wien zu verlassen. Zahlreiche Zeichnungen und Gemälde mit Prager Stadtansichten entstehen in der Prager Zeit bis zur Flucht nach London im Oktober 1938. Kokoschka malt die Brücke an der Moldau aus erhöhtem Standpunkt, wie er es bereits in seinen Hafenbildern aus Monte Carlo, Marseille (beide 1925), Hamburg und London (beide 1926) praktizierte. Im Gegensatz zu den in diesem Raum gezeigten Bildern ist die Farbpalette heller und reiner in den Farbtönen. Die Pinselführung ist schraffierend und evoziert in ihrer Dynamik eine starke wirbelartige, atmosphärische Bewegung. — [Harald Krejci, 4/2010]Paintinghttps://sammlungtest.belvedere.at/objects/2176/rdf/internal/media/dispatcher/12710/fullHugo von Hofmannsthal1928[Anton Faistauer]Anton FaistauerOil on canvasPaintinghttps://sammlungtest.belvedere.at/objects/8811/rdf/internal/media/dispatcher/4906/fullPortrait of the Isepp Family1927/1928[Franz Wiegele]Franz WiegeleOil on canvasDargestellt ist die Familie Isepp mit Hubert Isepp sen., die Gattin Anna Isepp und den Kindern Grete und Hubert jun. Im Spiegel an der rückwärtigen Wand erscheint der Künstler selber.Paintinghttps://sammlungtest.belvedere.at/objects/8634/rdf/internal/media/dispatcher/119655/fullThe Tigon1926[Oskar Kokoschka]Oskar KokoschkaOil on canvasNoch vor der morgendlichen Öffnung, so war es mit dem Direktor ausgemacht, besuchte Kokoschka den Londoner Zoo, um den Tigerlöwen zu malen. Schläfrig wartete er mit seiner Staffelei, bis „die Riesenkatze wie eine flammende, gelbe Bombe aus dem Dunkeln mit allen Vieren ins Licht, ins Freie“ stürmte und auf ihn zusprang, als wollte sie ihn „in Fetzen reißen“. Urweltlich und bedrohlich nah malt Kokoschka die Raubkatze. Furchterregend sind der große Kopf mit dem geöffneten Maul, der starre Blick und die Pranken auf dem erlegten Beutetier. Der Tigerlöwe, eine Kreuzung aus Tiger und Löwe, war eine Sensation des Londoner Zoos, wohin er 1924 als Geschenk eines indischen Maharadschas gelangt war.Paintinghttps://sammlungtest.belvedere.at/objects/5073/rdf/internal/media/dispatcher/11994/fullStill Life with Wine and Breadc. 1930[Hans Böhler]Hans BöhlerOil on canvasPaintinghttps://sammlungtest.belvedere.at/objects/2964/rdf/internal/media/dispatcher/12868/fullTorbole1925[Albert Paris Gütersloh]Albert Paris GüterslohOil on canvasPaintinghttps://sammlungtest.belvedere.at/objects/8396/rdf/internal/media/dispatcher/4905/fullCagnesc. 1927[Felix Albrecht Harta]Felix Albrecht HartaOil on canvasPaintinghttps://sammlungtest.belvedere.at/objects/8626/rdf/internal/media/dispatcher/15866/fullYearning1921[Anton Kolig]Anton KoligOil on canvasPaintinghttps://sammlungtest.belvedere.at/objects/3250/rdf/internal/media/dispatcher/16031/fullCityscapeundated[Anton Emanuel Peschka]Anton Emanuel PeschkaOil on woodPaintinghttps://sammlungtest.belvedere.at/objects/4989/rdf/internal/media/dispatcher/94301/fullPortrait of the Artist's Wife, Edith Schiele1918[Egon Schiele]Egon SchieleOil on canvas“One evening Schiele was invited with his wife. She was completely obscured by her tousled blonde hair and a shy hesitancy,” wrote a friend of the artist’s about the young couple. They had married in 1915; three years later the Expressionist artist painted his wife with a highly sensitive gaze. It would be the first of his paintings to be acquired by a museum. But in the eyes of the then Director of the Belvedere (called the Österreichische Staatsgalerie at the time) it was too “arts-and-crafts” and vivid, whereupon Schiele reworked Edith’s dress in more muted hues. Technical analysis of the painting in 2018 brought this original version to light. This has been reconstructed and is shown here beside the final version of the painting.Paintinghttps://sammlungtest.belvedere.at/objects/1029/rdf/internal/media/dispatcher/94715/fullVictor Ritter von Bauer1918[Egon Schiele]Egon SchieleOil on canvasPaintinghttps://sammlungtest.belvedere.at/objects/1955/rdf/internal/media/dispatcher/94719/fullSquatting Couple (The Family)1918[Egon Schiele]Egon SchieleOil on canvasA man and a woman, both nude, are crouching in a dark room. A child peers out from between the woman’s legs. Positioned protectively behind them both, the man with alert eyes reveals Schiele’s features. His bony body contrasts with the woman’s soft curves, who looks down, lost in thought. Despite their physical proximity, the two bodies appear isolated. Schiele’s own family would never come into existence. His wife Edith died of Spanish flu on October 28, 1918, when she was six months pregnant. Egon Schiele died three days later. Art critic Berta Zuckerkandl thereupon first used the title “The Family” for Squatting Couple.Paintinghttps://sammlungtest.belvedere.at/objects/3071/rdf/internal/media/dispatcher/94305/fullDr. Hugo Koller1918[Egon Schiele]Egon SchieleOil on canvasDr. Hugo Koller (geb. 1868) war Arzt und Physiker. Seine Frau war die Malerin Broncia Koller-Pinell (1863-1934).Paintinghttps://sammlungtest.belvedere.at/objects/3090/rdf/internal/media/dispatcher/83174/fullThe Embrace1917[Egon Schiele]Egon SchieleOil on canvas Egon Schiele shows two lovers intimately embracing in an abstract space. Sprawled on a crumpled sheet, they cling to each other, while their lower bodies appear to be drifting apart. Schiele does not focus on a provocative display of nakedness. He dispenses with explicit poses and piercing gazes. Yet the bodies are still vehicles of inner states. Instead of the figures’ identities, the artist places universal themes at the heart of this depiction. Schiele’s image tells of desire and separation anxiety, tenderness and despair. Paintinghttps://sammlungtest.belvedere.at/objects/3232/rdf/internal/media/dispatcher/7447/fullOtto von Aichelburg-Zossenegg1916[Anton Kolig]Anton KoligOil on canvasPaintinghttps://sammlungtest.belvedere.at/objects/3552/rdf/internal/media/dispatcher/84004/fullDeath and Maiden1915[Egon Schiele]Egon SchieleOil on canvasMortality and death are existential themes that Schiele ventured to address time and again—here associated with a biographical event. It shows a couple, the young woman clinging with both arms to her lover. The man, a self-portrait of Schiele, stares into space. The fragile balance—the artist is alluding to this in the figures’ unstable poses—seems as if it could shatter at any moment. The girl is his long-term partner and model Wally Neuzil. He had split up with her to marry Edith Harms, who was from a middle-class family. After their separation, Neuzil trained as a nurse. In 1917 she died of scarlet fever during her wartime deployment.Paintinghttps://sammlungtest.belvedere.at/objects/1968/rdf/internal/media/dispatcher/83378/fullMother with Two Children III1915-1917[Egon Schiele]Egon SchieleOil on canvasPaintinghttps://sammlungtest.belvedere.at/objects/3267/rdf/internal/media/dispatcher/65555/fullThunderstorm1913[Ludwig Heinrich Jungnickel]Ludwig Heinrich JungnickelTempera on paperDrawing arthttps://sammlungtest.belvedere.at/objects/726/rdf/internal/media/dispatcher/70805/fullThe Artist’s Wife with Flowers1913[Anton Kolig]Anton KoligOil on canvasPaintinghttps://sammlungtest.belvedere.at/objects/2010/rdf/internal/media/dispatcher/128256/fullThe Painter Carl Moll1913[Oskar Kokoschka]Oskar KokoschkaOil on canvasCarl Moll (1861–1945) was fifty-two when Kokoschka painted this portrait. He looks relaxed sitting in his chair with an alert and interested gaze. Although his pose is calm, the lively brushwork gives him an energetic quality. The easel on the left alludes to Moll’s profession while his elegant suit reflects a successful career. As a painter and organizer of exhibitions, Moll features prominently in the “Who’s Who” of fin-de-siècle Vienna. In 1897 he co-founded the Vienna Secession. One year before painting this portrait, Kokoschka had met Moll’s stepdaughter Alma Mahler. The artist fell madly and obsessively in love with her, a passion that also fueled a surge in creativity.Paintinghttps://sammlungtest.belvedere.at/objects/2803/rdf/internal/media/dispatcher/47294/fullYoung Woman on a Red Couch1913[Anton Faistauer]Anton FaistauerOil on canvasPaintinghttps://sammlungtest.belvedere.at/objects/8296/rdf/internal/media/dispatcher/5292/fullSelf-Portrait1912[Albert Paris Gütersloh]Albert Paris GüterslohOil on canvasPaintinghttps://sammlungtest.belvedere.at/objects/3355/rdf/internal/media/dispatcher/97122/fullAvenue to Schloss Kammer1912[Gustav Klimt, Viktor Zuckerkandl, Paula Zuckerkandl, Victor & Paula Zuckerkandl, Österreichische Galerie]Gustav KlimtOil on canvas “I am longing to get away more than ever,” wrote Gustav Klimt at the beginning of August 1901 — away from the hot city for a sojourn by the lakes and mountains of Austria’s Salzkammergut. From 1900 to 1916 the artist spent several weeks each summer at the Attersee lake. This beautiful region inspired him and he painted intensively. Klimt depicted Schloss Kammer in a total of five paintings. At the end of an avenue of gnarled trees, the entrance and part of the yellow façade can be seen in the pictorial depths. Vibrant dabs of paint and bold contours reflect Klimt’s engagement with the international avant-garde, for example the work of Vincent van Gogh or Paul Cézanne that he had the chance to study at exhibitions in Vienna.Paintinghttps://sammlungtest.belvedere.at/objects/8691/rdf/internal/media/dispatcher/12724/fullStill Life with Fruit on Green Cloth1911[Anton Faistauer]Anton FaistauerOil on canvasPaintinghttps://sammlungtest.belvedere.at/objects/3185/rdf/internal/media/dispatcher/110724/fullSunflowers I1911[Egon Schiele]Egon SchieleOil on canvasWithered and parched, the brown leaves droop. Large flower heads gaze feebly at their young blooms below, but even these small fresh blossoms cannot halt the decay. Like Gustav Klimt, Schiele’s penchant for sunflowers was probably inspired by Vincent van Gogh. However, the young painter radically departed from Klimt’s decorative legacy. Instead, Schiele’s expressive works are full of contortions, distortions, and deformations. Even individual sunflowers become a reflection of spiritual turmoil and a symbol of all that is transient. “I am human. I love death and I love life,” Schiele once declared.Paintinghttps://sammlungtest.belvedere.at/objects/8294/rdf/internal/media/dispatcher/6549/fullPortrait of Manfred Osthaus as a Boy1911[Maximilian Oppenheimer]Maximilian OppenheimerOil on canvasPaintinghttps://sammlungtest.belvedere.at/objects/10557/rdf/internal/media/dispatcher/5286/fullStill Life with Flask and Silver Bowl1910[Albert Paris Gütersloh]Albert Paris GüterslohOil on canvasPaintinghttps://sammlungtest.belvedere.at/objects/3143/rdf/internal/media/dispatcher/94300/fullEduard Kosmack1910[Egon Schiele]Egon SchieleOil on canvasThe sitter is like a hypnotist casting his spell over us. Beneath an extremely high forehead, his penetrating gaze hits us full on. Kosmack’s bony hands and the arms pressed close to his body emphasize his withdrawn character. All that interrupts the strict symmetry of the portrait is the sunflower on the right. The figure of the publisher contrasts powerfully with the light background, its flat, planar character still closely resembling the art of the Vienna Secession. Yet Schiele’s expressive style is already visible here: gestures, body language, and facial expressions are now the principal elements of his portraits. The body has been transformed into a vehicle of human emotions.Paintinghttps://sammlungtest.belvedere.at/objects/3456/rdf/internal/media/dispatcher/4830/fullThe Reiner Boy (Portrait of Herbert Reiner)1910[Egon Schiele]Egon SchieleOil on canvas In 1910 the renowned orthopedic specialist Max Reiner commissioned a portrait of his five-year-old son Herbert from the young painter Egon Schiele. The artist depicted him in front of a blank surface and wearing a red garment that envelops him like a loose cloak. There are no objects to indicate the child’s age. Rather, his strikingly coarse hands appear much older than the sitter himself and contrast with the boy’s radiant, innocent gaze. Schiele painted The Reiner Boy together with a series of portraits that are all in a square format and share similar compositions. Paintinghttps://sammlungtest.belvedere.at/objects/3521/rdf/internal/media/dispatcher/3517/fullStill Life with Mutton and Haycinth1910[Oskar Kokoschka]Oskar KokoschkaOil on canvasThe artist a “mangy creature,” his pictures “repugnant buboes reeking of a foul smell.” It was above all Kokoschka’s wild, expressive style of painting that prompted art critics to man the barricades. And they were also appalled by his crude scratches into the oil paint and his experimental approach to traditional and religious themes. This still life was painted following an Easter invitation to the house of Dr. Oskar Reichel, an internist and collector. It shows a dead sheep, a tortoise, a mouse, and an amphibian, and a mysteriously shining hyacinth, all found at the collector’s home. Kokoschka grouped them into a haphazard arrangement of novel symbols of transience and redemption.Paintinghttps://sammlungtest.belvedere.at/objects/8158/rdf/internal/media/dispatcher/21136/fullNudes in the Forest1910-1911[Franz Wiegele]Franz WiegeleOil on canvasPaintinghttps://sammlungtest.belvedere.at/objects/8400/rdf/internal/media/dispatcher/4839/fullFred Goldman (Child with Parents Hands)1909[Oskar Kokoschka]Oskar KokoschkaOil on canvasOskar Kokoschka painted a portrait in 1909 of the six-month-old son of Leopold and Lillie Goldman, whom he had met through Adolf Loos. At the time, Loos was building the iconic and controversial “house without eyebrows” opposite the Vienna Hofburg for the men’s outfitters Goldman & Salatsch. Fervent supporters of Viennese Modernism at the time, members of the Goldman family were later murdered in the Shoah. Kokoschka himself became an early target of the Nazi cultural policy. He emigrated to Prague in 1934 and on to London in 1938, where he settled once again in exile. In 1951 he moved to Switzerland and for the rest of his life never returned for any length of time to Austria. Paintinghttps://sammlungtest.belvedere.at/objects/4299/rdf/internal/media/dispatcher/140353/fullThe Kiss (Lovers)1908 (finished 1909)[Gustav Klimt, Ministerium für Kultus und Unterricht, Moderne Galerie, Wien]Gustav KlimtFigures: gold leaf, silver leaf, platinum leaf, resin oil colors on primed canvas (zinc paint). – Background: Composition gold (brass), glazed, flakes of metal leaf “The Kiss”, probably Klimt’s most famous work, was painted at the height of his Golden Period without a direct commission. It shows a couple, melting into one, at the edge of a meadow of flowers. Only the different patterning of the robes distinguishes their bodies that are enveloped in a shimmering golden halo. Klimt actually used real gold leaf, silver, and platinum in his picture. He presumably started work on it in 1907 and exhibited the painting at the Kunstschau in June the following year under the title “Lovers”. From this show, the Ministry of Art purchased it for the Modern Gallery—now the Belvedere—for a price that was high even then. In autumn 1909, a catalogue of this museum cited the work for the first time as “The Kiss”, the title by which it is world famous today.Paintinghttps://sammlungtest.belvedere.at/objects/6678/rdf/internal/media/dispatcher/70817/fullHäuser im Winter (Blick aus dem Atelier)1907/1908[Egon Schiele]Egon SchieleOil on cardboardPaintinghttps://sammlungtest.belvedere.at/objects/4244/rdf/internal/media/dispatcher/4572/fullInterieur1907[Egon Schiele]Egon SchieleOil on cardboardPaintinghttps://sammlungtest.belvedere.at/objects/5302/rdf/internal/media/dispatcher/118781/fullFritza Riedler1906[Gustav Klimt, Fritza Riedler, Aloys Riedler, Emilie Barbara Langer, Österreichische Galerie]Gustav KlimtOil on canvas Dignified, reserved, and majestic, Fritza Riedler (1860–1927), the wife of a wealthy mechanical engineer, sits in a chair as if enthroned. The delicate features of her pale face stand in striking contrast to her dark hair. There is not a flicker of expression on her face, not the slightest stirring to provide a glimpse of the sitter’s inner self. Gustav Klimt combines the naturalistic depiction of his model with a background dissolved into ornamentation. Even the chair is transformed into an ornament composed of wavy lines and ancient Egyptian eye motifs. This interplay between depth and an emphasis on the picture plane characterizes Klimt’s work from his so-called Golden Period. Paintinghttps://sammlungtest.belvedere.at/objects/2177/rdf/internal/media/dispatcher/114740/fullCottage Garden with Sunflowers1906[Gustav Klimt, Karl Wittgenstein, Hermine Wittgenstein, Österreichische Galerie, Galerie Sanct Lucas]Gustav KlimtOil on canvas Sunflowers and dahlias, marigolds, asters, and flame flowers. In this work, Klimt more than lives up to his reputation as the “artist of eternal flowering.” Against a backdrop of verdant green, he has filled the picture plane with a vibrant sea of flowers. This abundant, vivid array stirs memories of a radiant summer day. It transports us to a dream world beyond space and time, where flowers and leaves never wilt. One typical characteristic of Klimt’s landscape paintings is their square format. In order to find the perfect section of a scene, the painter used a viewfinder. “This is a hole cut into a piece of cardboard,” he explained in a letter to his lover Mizzi Zimmermann.Paintinghttps://sammlungtest.belvedere.at/objects/2483/rdf