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A strange, life-size doll is at the center of one of the Modern era’s most bizarre episodes. Its inspiration was the sudden end of an intense love affair between the Expressionist painter Oskar Kokoschka and the fascinating Alma Mahler. Born in 1879, Alma Maria Schindler grew up surrounded by the best of Viennese society.
Nov 21, 2018 · Oskar Kokoschka’s Alma doll as Venus, 1919. Private Collection. Artist : Moos, Henriette (1890-1941). Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images. In a fit of intoxicated rage, the artist took the doll, seated her on a chair in his garden and spilled wine all over her.
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Feb 17, 2015 · While it was sort of a sex doll and sort of a mannequin—and as such, not really my area of study—it also had an unimpeachable toy pedigree: in 1918, after the great muse ended her relationship with the artist Oskar Kokoschka, he commissioned a life-size replica of his lost love from the doll-maker Hermine Moos.
Jan 24, 2022 · The Doll. A page from one of Kokoschka’s letters to Moos. Made between July 1918 to March 1919 by German painter and dollmaker Hermine Moos, the doll was commissioned by expressionist painter Oskar Kokoschka. Kokoschka intended for his artificial woman to mimic the likeness of his former lover Alma Mahler, and sent Miss Moos detailed ...
To console himself after the loss of his lover, Kokoschka commissioned the Munich doll maker Hermine Moos to create a life-size doll of Alma’s likeness in July 1918. The doll was designed according to Kokoschka’s own descriptions. Although the result was a bitter disappointment to him, he used this fetish doll in several paintings and drawings.
Jan 6, 2015 · Oskar Kokoschka (1886-1980). He commissioned a life-sized female doll in 1918. Although intended to simulate Alma and receive his affection, the gynoid-Alma did not satisfy Kokoschka and he destroyed it during a party. 1918. Alma doll by Oskar Kokoschka (1886-1980). Deemed a degenerate by the Nazis, Kokoschka fled Austria in 1934 for Prague.
Patron: Doll commissioned by Oskar Kokoschka (Austrian, Pöchlarn 1886–1980 Montreux) Person in Photograph: Doll modeled after Alma Mahler (American (born Austria), Vienna 1879–1964 New York) Date: 1919. Medium: Gelatin silver print. Dimensions: 9.5 x 14.7 cm (3 7/8 x 5 13/16 in.) Classification: Photographs.
