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A lithograph of a girl seated by a window and looking out at a nighttime scene.

A girl with white skin, yellow hair, blue garments, and green boots sits on a green chair by a window. She has a yellow book in her lap and is looking out of the window to the left in profile. Framing her seat is a green trellis with ivy climbing around it. At the top right of the trellis is a black bird in a yellow cage. Beyond the window is a green willow tree, and beyond that are white stars and a white moon partially covered by black clouds.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
BR59.9
People
Oskar Kokoschka, Austrian (Pöchlarn, Austria 1886 - 1980 Montreux, Switzerland)
Printed by Wiener Werkstätte (1903 - 1932)
Title
Postcard published by the Wiener Werkstätte (Girl at a Window)
Other Titles
Original Language Title: Mädchen am Fenster
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1906-1908
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/223155

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Lithograph in black, blue, yellow, and green inks on off-white wove paper
Technique
Lithograph
Dimensions
sheet: 13.9 x 9 cm (5 1/2 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
BR59.9
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Hans Maria Wingler and Friedrich Welz, O. Kokoschka: Das druckgraphische Werk, Verlag Galerie Welz (Salzburg, Austria, 1975), no. 15, p. 66

Exhibition History

  • From Werkbund to Bauhaus: Art and Design in Germany 1900-1934, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 05/12/1980 - 04/26/1980
  • “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

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