/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.Painting© Fondation Oskar Kokoschka / Bildrecht, Wien 2026https://sammlungtest.belvedere.at/objects/8158/rdf