O Ewigkeit, du Donnerwort (Bachkantate)
1918
Oskar Kokoschka
Artist, Austrian, 1886 - 1980
Publisher, German, 1854 - 1893
Artwork overview
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Medium
bound volume with twelve signed lithographs (eleven illustrations plus one illustrated titlepage of Fortuna) on laid paper.
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Credit Line
Gift of Beverly and Christopher With in memory of Karl and Gerda With
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Dimensions
sheet: 55 x 41.8 cm (21 5/8 x 16 7/16 in.)
book: 56 x 42 x 1 cm (22 1/16 x 16 9/16 x 3/8 in.) -
Accession Number
2008.96.1.10
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Catalogue Raisonné
Wingler/Welz 1975, nos. 58-68
Associated Artworks
See all 12 artworks
O Ewigkeit, du Donnerwort (Bachkantate)
Oskar Kokoschka, Fritz Gurlitt
1918
O Ewigkeit, du Donnerwort (Bachkantate)
Oskar Kokoschka, Fritz Gurlitt
1918
O Ewigkeit, du Donnerwort (Bachkantate)
Oskar Kokoschka, Fritz Gurlitt
1918
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Gift of the Artist via Mr. Burnstein (letter from artist enclosed in book); Karl With; by bequest to Beverly and Christopher With, Washington, DC, 1981; gift to NGA, 2008.
Associated Names
Inscriptions
lower right in graphite on titlepage: Kokoschka 1918; verso of title page in graphite: (not deciphered) / Pittsfield. orig. 1949 / Kokoschka / (not deciphered); inside upper left front cover in graphite: Karl Widtr. former director Kunstgerverhemuseum, Köln
Markings
label of J.H. de Bois, Haarlem (bookseller?)