Alma Mahler y la primera muñeca para hombres

EL BESO (Klimt) Lovers and Husbands

Gustav Klimt


Alexander Zemlinsky
Gustav Mahler
Walter Gropius
Dr. Paul Kammerer
Oskar Kokoschka
Franz Werfel
Johannes Hollnsteiner
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Biography
	1879 - 1901 1901 - 1911 1911 - 1919 1919 - 1938 1938 - 1945 1945 - 1964
Chronology

La mujer de todos

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The Puppet

Oskar Kokoschka about the Puppet (0,4 MB)
In July I9I8 Oskar Kokoschka ordered a life-size doll from the Munich doll-maker Hermine Moos as a substitute for his lost love. It was to be made to look exactly like Alma Mahler.
On July 22 he already returned a model of the head, having checked it and made suggestions as to how the work should proceed. "If you are able to carry out this task as I would wish, to deceive me with such magic that when I see it and touch it imagine that I have the woman of my dreams in front of me, then dear Fräulein Moos, I will be eternally indebted to your skills of invention and your womanly sensitivity as you may already have deduced from the discussion we had."

left: Kokoschka's letter to Hermine Moos
right: Study for "Woman in blue" (1919)

The doll was not finished until the second half of February 1919. On February 22 Kokoschka asked to have the doll sent to him. The ensuing disappointment was huge. The doll could scarcely fulfil Kokoschka’s erotic and sexual desires and in the end became no more than a kind of still-life model. The artist then took the place of the unhappy lover and by means of a painterly (and graphic) metamorphosis of the doll he breathed new life into Alma as a "figure of art”.

left: "Devotion" (1918)
right: Hermine Moos with the puppet

When Kokoschka was questioned on the matter of his fetish in I93I/32, he came straight to the point: "Finally, after I had drawn it and painted it over and over again, I decided to do away with it. It had managed to cure me completely of my Passion. So I gave a big champagne Party with chamber music, during which my maid Hulda exhibited the doll in all its beautiful clothes for the last time. When dawn broke - I was quite drunk, as was everyone else - I beheaded it out in the garden and broke a bottle-of red wine over its head.”

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Above: The Puppet Right: Oskar Kokoschka: Girl with Doll (1921/22)

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Bonnie Roos - Oskar Kokoschka's Sex Toy: The Women and the Doll Who Conceived the Artist - Modernism/modernity 12:2 Modernism/modernity 12.2 (2005) 291-309 Oskar Kokoschka's Sex Toy: The Women and the Doll Who Conceived the Artist Bonnie Roos How can those terrified vague fingers push The feathered glory from her loosening thighs? And how can body, laid in that white rush, But feel the strange heart beating where it lies? —William Butler Yeats, "Leda and the Swan" (1923) Upon returning home from World War I, Oskar Kokoschka found that his lover, Alma Mahler, had married another man. In response, he commissioned the creation of a life-size doll to match Mahler's exact proportions. Kokoschka provoked rumor and scandal as he escorted his doll to the opera, held parties in its honor, and hired a maid to dress and service it. This provocative public performance inspired rampant speculation about what else, exactly, Kokoschka did with the doll. The doll met its "unnatural" demise when one of Kokoschka's parties got out of hand. Police questioned Kokoschka in the morning about a murder; a beheaded and bloody body was reportedly seen outside his home. Evidently it was the naked, wine-splattered doll, which had somehow lost its head during the revelries of the previous evening. This was the story that Kokoschka and his critics, both then and now, loved to tell, embellishing racy details, speaking to fetishism, sex dolls, pranks, and occasional misogyny. ...