Interesting Art Stories: 73. The Bride of the Wind, Oskar Kokoschka, ACJ Art Academy

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Currently, I am introducing the stories about various artists and their paintings with the title “Interesting Art Stories”.

The 73rd story is “The Bride of the Wind” by Oskar Kokoschka.

“The Bride of the Wind (or The Tempest)” is a 1913–1914 oil painting on canvas by Oskar Kokoschka, which is currently in the collection of the Kunstmuseum Basel. Kokoschka's most famous work, it is an allegorical self-portrait of the artist lying next to his lover and muse, Alma Schindler Mahler.

In 1912, Kokoschka first met Alma Schindler Mahler, the recently widowed wife of composer Gustav Mahler at the time. Then, the two had a passionate love affair, and Kokoschka created numerous paintings of her. This painting depicts Kokoschka waking up and looking at the sky and Mahler sleeping peacefully next to him. However, the couple broke up in 1914, two years after they met, and this event had a profound impact on Kokoschka, whose expressive brushwork grew more turbulent.

When Kokoschka painted this painting, poet Georg Trakl visited him almost every day, and he praised this painting in his poem “Die Nacht (The Night)”.

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