2024-01-17 14:59:42
The painting can now be seen in the current Oppenheimer show
Vienna (OTS) – The Leopold Museum received a special Christmas present at the end of 2023. A Viennese patron made it possible to purchase the portrait of Arthur Schnitzler by Max Oppenheimer (Vienna 1885–1954 New York) from 1911. This was at Ketterer in Munich by director Hans- Peter Wipplinger’s auctioned painting has been in the Max Oppenheimer exhibition since January 17th. Expressionist of the first hour shown. The successful presentation has so far thrilled around 125,000 visitors and can be seen in the Leopold Museum until February 25th. The work is now the third important Oppenheimer painting in the Leopold Museum’s collection, alongside the portrait of Tilla Durieux (1912) acquired by museum founder Rudolf Leopold and the self-portrait from 1911, which was also purchased in 2023.
Max Oppenheimer, along with Richard Gerstl, Oskar Kokoschka and Egon Schiele, is one of the most important Austrian expressionists and was one of the most sought-following portraitists in the first quarter of the 20th century. He created portraits of personalities such as Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, the architect Adolf Loos, the writer brothers Heinrich and Thomas Mann, the collector Oskar Reichel, his artist friend Egon Schiele, the gallery owner Heinrich Thannhauser, the composer Ferruccio Busoni, and Arnold Schönberg , Anton Webern and many more The portraits are now in such important museums and institutions as the Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, the Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, the Von der Heydt Museum Wuppertal, the Jewish Museum Berlin, the Nationalgalerie Prague, the Belvedere, the Vienna Museum or the Neue Galerie in New York.
Oppenheimer’s portrait of Arthur Schnitzler (Vienna 1862–1931 ibid.) was created just before the famous writer’s 50th birthday. In 1910, the playwright published one of his best-known plays, The Wide Land. The painting – like the self-portrait from 1911 – was shown in the comprehensive exhibition of Heinrich Thannhauser’s Modern Gallery in Munich, which helped Oppenheimer’s breakthrough. The painting was then shown at the Kunsthaus Zurich and also in 1911/12 at the Paul Cassirer art salon in Berlin. In 1913, the work was presented at the Mannheim Art Association and at the Emil Richter Art Salon in Dresden. In the years that followed, the work was in private collections and is now available to the public once more for the first time in 110 years.
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