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Kokoschka’s Alma Mahler doll. 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 ...
Maker: Doll made by Hermine Moos (German, Frankfurt 1888–1928 Munich) 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 ...
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. Kokoschka took a strong hand ...
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Jan 6, 2015 · Alma Doll by Oskar Kokoschka (1886-1980). The first, Woman in Blue, 1919, is still considered Kokoschka’s masterpiece of this period, though it is seldom analyzed in detail; and the two latter, Painter with Doll, 1920–21, and At the Easel, 1922, are among Kokoschka’s numerous self-portraits, and rarely noted by critics.
Jan 24, 2022 · The Doll. 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 ...
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.
Still reeling from Alma's departure, in 1918 Kokoschka commissioned the Munich doll maker Hermine Moos to fabricate a life-size doll with Alma Mahler's body and facial features. He provided Moos with dimensions, drawings, and specific directions, writing, "Please permit my sense of touch to take pleasure in those places where layers of fat or ...
