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Stillleben mit Hammel und Hyazinthe

Belvedere, Oberes Belvedere, 1. Obergeschoß (Ost), Raum SO1
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Still Life with Mutton and Haycinth
Date1910

Künstler*in Oskar Kokoschka (1886 Pöchlarn – 1980 Villeneuve)

ULAN

Object typePainting
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions
87 × 114 cm
SignatureBez. rechts unten: OK
Inventory number2358
Locations Belvedere, Upper Belvedere, 1. Floor (east), Room SO1
The 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.