[PLATZHALTERTEXT]Vervielfältigungen eines Werkes dieser Webseite für Text- und Data-Mining und damit insbesondere für das Training einer Künstlichen Intelligenz bleibt ausdrücklich vorbehalten (§ 42h Abs 6 UrhG).https://sammlungtest.belvedere.at/internal/media/dispatcher/119655/fullThe Tigon192696 × 129 cm
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Kokoschka and the director had agreed that he could visit London Zoo to paint the tigon early in the morning, before the visitors arrived. Sleepily he waited with his easel and painting gear until “the giant cat” charged “on all fours out of the dark and into the light, into the open like a blazing, yellow bomb” and leaped toward him as if it wanted to “tear him to shreds.” “This was repeated every morning,” writes Kokoschka in his autobiography, and so he painted the tigon as primeval and dangerously close. Its body barely fits into the frame. Its large head with an open mouth and its paws resting on a lacerated antelope or other animal are terrifying. Then there is its gaze, targeted straight at the viewer. The tigon, a crossbreed of a tiger and a lion, was a sensation at London Zoo, where it had arrived in 1924 as a gift from an Indian maharaja. However, Kokoschka painted not only the tigon but also a mandrill. In him he saw himself: “He is a wild, isolated chap, almost like a reflection of me. Someone who wants to be alone.”Painting123637795073image/jpegIn CopyrightFoto: Johannes Stoll / Belvedere, Wienhttps://sammlungtest.belvedere.at/internal/media/dispatcher/119655/fullhttps://sammlungtest.belvedere.at/apis/iiif/presentation/v2/1-objects-5073/manifest