(Pöchlarn 1886–1980 Villeneuve)
“Blick auf den Schlossberg” (View of the Schlossberg),
Tolmein /Tolmezzo, 1916, monogrammed OK, titled Schloßberg, watercolor and tempera on paper, laid on cardboard, upper edge irregularly trimmed, 30.3 x 41.8 cm, framed

Listed and illustrated:
Alfred Weidinger, Alice Strobl, Oskar Kokoschka. Die Zeichnungen und Aquarelle. 1897–1916, Albertina, Vienna (ed.), Verlag Galerie Welz, 2008, p. 537, cat. rais. no. 885

Provenance:
Museum Folkwang, Essen 1930–1937
confiscated by the German Reich in the course of the “degenerate art” on 24/25 August 1937
with Hildebrand Gurlitt, Hamburg 1939
Private Collection Switzerland
Sale, Lempertz, Cologne, 3 December 1964, Lot 353, ill. plate 3
Sale, Lempertz, Cologne, 1 June 1984, lot 377, plate 3
where acquired Galerie Würthle, Vienna, 1984
Private Collection, Vienna

Literature:
Rupert Feuchtmüller, “Ihr nennt nur Raum, was Phantasie ist”. Erinnerungen an OK zum 100. Geburtstag, in: Morgen. Kulturzeitschrift für Niederös terreich, 10. Jg., Nr. 64, 1986, ill. in color p. 109

Exhibited:
Mannheim, Städtische Kunsthalle, Oskar Kokoschka. Das gesammelte Werk, 18 January – 1 March 1931, cat. no. 138
Vienna, Galerie Würthle, Oskar Kokoschka. Ölbilder, Aquarelle und Zeichnungen, Ausstellung zum 100. Geburtstag, 1 March – 19 April 1986, cat. no. 41, color ill.
Vienna, Albertina, Oskar Kokoschka. Das Frühwerk, Zeichnungen und Aquarelle, 2 March – 23 May 1994, cat. no. 205, color ill.
New York, Guggenheim Museum, Oskar Kokoschka. Works on Paper. The Early Years, 10 June – 24 August 1994, no. 91, p. 46, color ill.

Oskar Kokoschka was detached to the Isonzo Front as a liaison officer in July 1916 and took part in the 6th Battle of the Isonzo from August 4–17 on the front line. The painting illustrates the view of the castle hill near Tolmein/Tolmezzo from the Austrian positions and captures the valley with the “bridgehead” at Sveta Maria, the Isonzo and the Tolmeinerstrasse in the background.