BR59.6: Postcard published by the Wiener Werkstätte (Rider and Sailboat)
PrintsIn this image, a yellow figure astride a black-and-white speckled horse walks through a verdant countryside. Both figure and horse face left in profile, but the figure gestures backwards with his right arm. Beyond the green hills is a red ship with two furled white sails on a blue body of water. The colors used in this piece are green, yellow, red, blue, and white, and the figure, horse, and hills in the middle ground are outlined in black.
Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- BR59.6
- People
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Oskar Kokoschka, Austrian (Pöchlarn, Austria 1886 - 1980 Montreux, Switzerland)
Printed by Wiener Werkstätte (1903 - 1932)
- Title
- Postcard published by the Wiener Werkstätte (Rider and Sailboat)
- Other Titles
- Original Language Title: Reiter und Segelschiff
- Classification
- Prints
- Work Type
- Date
- 1906-1908
- Culture
- German
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/223152
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Lithograph in black, blue, yellow, green, and red inks on off-white wove paper
- Technique
- Lithograph
- Dimensions
- sheet: 14.1 x 9 cm (5 9/16 x 3 9/16 in.)
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Purchase in memory of Louis W. Black
- Accession Year
- 1959
- Object Number
- BR59.6
- Division
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Contact
- am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- Hans Maria Wingler and Friedrich Welz, O. Kokoschka: Das druckgraphische Werk, Verlag Galerie Welz (Salzburg, Austria, 1975), no. 3, p. 62
Exhibition History
- Dream and Design: Turn-of-the-Century Art in Vienna and Central Europe, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 03/07/1992 - 05/03/1992
- “As though my body were naught but ciphers”: Crises of Representation in Fin-de-Siècle Vienna, Harvard University Art Museums, Busch-Reisinger Museum, 02/12/2005 - 06/12/2005
- 32Q: 1440 Secessionism: Munich, Vienna, Berlin (Expressionism), Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/22/2015 - 04/05/2016
Verification Level
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