Oskar Kokoschka
Tubutsch - Rare Book Illustrated by Oskar Kokoschka - 1911
1911

Name: Tubutsch - Rare Book Illustrated by Oskar Kokoschka - 1911
Brand: Oskar Kokoschka
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About the Item

Tubutsch is an original modern rare book written by Albert Ehrenstein (Wien, 1886 – New York, 1950) and illustrated by Oskar Kokoschka (Pöchlarn, 1886 – Montreux, 1980) in 1911. Original First Edition. Published by Verlag Jahoda & Siegel, Wien. 225 unnumbered copies. Format: Small 8°. Publisher’s binding with golden threads and lithographic label (one of the 17 copies sold in 1908). The book includes 64 pages with 12 Full page drawings. Mint conditions. Oskar Kokoschka (Pöchlarn, 1886 – Montreux, 1980). Kokoschka was an Austrian painter and writer who was one of the leading exponents of Expressionism. In his early portraits, gesture intensifies the psychological penetration of character; especially powerful among his later works are allegories of the artist’s emphatic humanism. His dramas, poems, and prose are significant for their psychological insight and stylistic daring. In 1911 Kokoschka met Alma Mahler, seven years his senior and the widow of the Austrian composer Gustav Mahler. He fell in love with her, and for three years they pursued a tempestuous affair that Kokoschka much later described as “the most unquiet time of my life.” Their relationship ended with the outbreak of World War I and his enlistment in the Austrian army. Starting about 1912, Kokoschka painted portraits with brushstrokes that were increasingly broad and colourful, and he used heavier outlines that were broken and that no longer solidly enclosed forms. Among the works painted in this manner are Double Portrait (Oskar Kokoschka and Alma Mahler) (1912) and Self-Portrait, Pointing to the Breast (1913). Kokoschka’s most important painting of this period, The Tempest (1914), shows the artist and Alma Mahler resting together in a huge cockleshell in the midst of a raging sea. In this blue-and-gray composition, all the forms are described by large, loose strokes of colour, and the direction of the strokes seems to cause the entire composition to swirl and spin. In all these paintings, as with the landscapes, the emotional involvement of the artist with the subject is essential, and it continued to be the basis of Kokoschka’s art throughout his life. Albert Ehrenstein (Wien, 1886 – New York, 1950). He was an Austrian-born German Expressionist poet. His poetry exemplifies rejection of bourgeois values and fascination with the Orient, particularly with China. He spent most of his life in Berlin, but also travelled widely across Europe, Africa, and the Far East. In 1930, he travelled to Palestine, and published his impressions in a series of articles. Shortly before the Nazi take-over, Ehrenstein moved to Switzerland, and in 1941 to New York City, where he died.

Creator:

Oskar Kokoschka (1880 - 1980, Austrian)

Creation Year:

1911

Dimensions:

Height: 8.27 in (21 cm)Width: 5.91 in (15 cm)Depth: 0.04 in (1 mm)

Medium:

Paper,Lithograph

Movement & Style:

Expressionist

Period:

1910-1919