Ritter, Tod und Engel I

1911

Oskar Kokoschka1886 Pöchlarn – 1980 Montreux
We have 12 artworks by Oskar Kokoschka online.
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The date in the signature is a later addition; Kokoschka painted this picture in early summer 1911 in Vienna. Stylistically, it is at the beginning of the opaque paintings of 1911/12, which are increasingly characterized by bright colour line patterns that structure the representation like prisms. Nativity figures in the parents' house may have served as models; Dürer's master engraving might have provided the inspiration for the theme.
Also known as
The Knight, Death, and the Angel I Le Chevalier, la Mort et l’Ange I
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
image: 86 x 75.5 cm
Inventory number
1987/0016
Credit line
Kunsthaus Zürich, Vereinigung Zürcher Kunstfreunde, Donated by Elisabeth and Hans C. Bechtler, 1987