/internal/media/dispatcher/158106/fullFriends1938[Hans Böhler]Hans BöhlerOil on canvas Hans Böhler was from an art-loving industrialist family and had the means to devote himself completely to painting. This double portrait shows two important women—both in his life and on the New York art scene. In the mid-1930s Böhler met the American sculptor Selma Burke while she was studying in Vienna. Burke was a member of the influential Harlem Renaissance movement, a vibrant revival of African American culture in the interwar period. Böhler followed her to New York and became an American citizen. Here he met his childhood friend and former partner Friederike Beer-Monti, who was director of the Artists’ Gallery that supported young American artists and Austrian exiles, including Max Oppenheimer. Paintinghttps://sammlungtest.belvedere.at/objects/103016/rdf