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Identification and Creation

Object Number
BR52.21
People
Oskar Kokoschka, Austrian (Pöchlarn, Austria 1886 - 1980 Montreux, Switzerland)
Title
Portrait of Heinrich von Neumann
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1916
Places
Creation Place: Europe
Culture
Austrian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/219394

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
90.1 × 59.9 cm (35 1/2 × 23 9/16 in.)
framed: 105.4 × 75.2 × 7.6 cm (41 1/2 × 29 5/8 × 3 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Heinrich von Neumann, by descent; to Frau von Neumann, sold; [M. Gluekselig and Son, New York], sold; to Busch-Reisinger Museum, 1951.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Association Fund
Accession Year
1952
Object Number
BR52.21
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Charles Werner Haxthausen, The Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University, Abbeville Press (New York, NY, 1980), p. 29, repr.
  • Kristin A. Mortimer and William G. Klingelhofer, Harvard University Art Museums: A Guide to the Collections, Harvard University Art Museums and Abbeville Press (Cambridge and New York, 1986), no. 376, p. 314, repr.
  • Peter Nisbet and Emilie Norris, Busch-Reisinger Museum: History and Holdings, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1991), p. 64, ill.
  • Peter Nisbet and Joseph Koerner, The Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, ed. Peter Nisbet, Harvard University Art Museums and Scala Publishers Ltd. (Cambridge, MA and London, England, 2007), p. 147
  • Catherine Hug and Heike Eipeldauer, Oskar Kokoschka: Expressionist, Migrant, European. A Retrospective, exh. cat., Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft / Kunsthaus Zürich, Leopold Museum, and Kehrer Verlag Heidelberg (Vienna and Berlin, 2018), pp. 110, 297, Cat. 35, ill. (color)

Exhibition History

  • Works from the 20th Century Collection of the Busch-Reisinger, Wildenstein Gallery, New York, New York, 09/23/1980 - 10/24/1980
  • Deutsche Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts aus dem Busch-Reisinger Museum, Stadtische Galerie im Stadelschen Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt, 10/23/1982 - 01/16/1983; Bauhaus-Archiv, Berlin 30, 02/10/1983 - 04/17/1983; Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, 05/08/1983 - 06/26/1983
  • A Bitter Truth - The Avant-Garde and the Great War, Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin, 06/09/1994 - 08/28/1994; Barbican Art Gallery, London, 09/29/1994 - 12/11/1994
  • Modern Art at Harvard, Bunkamura Museum of Art, Tokyo, 07/31/1999 - 09/26/1999; Takamatsu City Museum of Art, Kagawa, 10/09/1999 - 11/14/1999; Matsuzakaya Art Museum, Nagoya, 12/02/1999 - 12/27/1999; Oita City Museum, Oita, 01/06/2000 - 02/06/2000; Museum of Modern Art, Ibaraki, Ibaraki, 02/11/2000 - 03/26/2000
  • OK - Expressionist, Migrant, Europäer. Oskar Kokoschka Retrospektive, Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich, 12/14/2018 - 03/10/2019; Leopold Museum, Vienna, 04/04/2019 - 07/08/2019

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