Emil Bührle Collection

Oskar Kokoschka

Emil Bührle

1951/52

Oil on canvas

125 x 90 cm

Signed with initials lower left: OK

Erling/Feilchenfeldt 1952/1

Katharina Erling, Walter Feilchenfeldt, Oskar Kokoschka, Die Gemälde Online, Fondation Oskar Kokoschka, Vevey (Hg.).

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Provenance

1Emil Bührle Zurich • 1 May 1952 until [d.] 28 November 1956 Commissioned from the artist. Whilst no documents regarding the commission survive, the AStEGB holds a correspondence between Oskar Kokoschka, (mostly) Villeneuve, and Emil Bührle, dating from 23 January 1952 to 3 March 1956, referring to the sittings, the progress of the portrait, and later to various questions, including Bührle's lecture of June 1954 «The Origin and Growth of my Collection». A first version of the portrait had to be reworked, and the inventory card of the portrait gives the 1 May 1952 as the date of accession.

2The estate of Emil BührleZurich • 1956–1967 The artworks that were not given to the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection in 1960 were divided among Emil Bührles’s son, Dr. Dieter Bührle, and his daughter, Hortense Anda-Bührle in 1967.

3Dr. Dieter Bührle Zurich • 1967 until [d.] 2012 Son of Emil Bührle and, in 1960, along with his mother Charlotte Bührle-Schalk and his sister Hortense (Anda-)Bührle, one of the three founders of the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, where he served on the Board from 1960 to 2012.

4Bequest of Dr. Dieter Bührle to Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection 2012 Inv. 179.

AStEGB = Archive of the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich

Katharina Erling, Walter Feilchenfeldt, Oskar Kokoschka, Die Gemälde Online, Fondation Oskar Kokoschka, Vevey (Hg.).

Exhibitions

1952Oskar Kokoschka XXVI Biennale di Venezia (Palazzo Centrale) • Venice • 1952 p. 225 (no. 5).

1955Grosse Kunstausstellung München 1955 Haus der Kunst • Munich • 1955 no. 774.

1955Kokoschka Wiener Secession • Vienna • 1955 no. 36.

1960Der späte Kokoschka Haus Salve Hospes, Braunschweig • Kunsthalle Bremen • Kunstkreis Hameln • Kunst- und Gewerbeverein Pforzheim • 1960 no. 23.

1964Chefs-d'œuvre des collections suisses de Manet à Picasso Exposition nationale suisse (Palais de Beaulieu) • Lausanne • 1964 no. 194.

1966Oskar Kokoschka Kunsthaus Zurich • 1966 no. 98.

1966Oskar Kokoschka, Das Portrait, Gemälde, Aquarelle, Zeichnungen 1907–1966 Badischer Kunstverein • Karlsruhe • 1966 no. 62.

1971Oskar Kokoschka, Bildnisse von 1907–1970 Haus der Kunst • Munich • 1971 no. 42.

1984Hommage à Oskar Kokoschka 1886–1980 Musée Jenisch • Vevey • 1984 no. 32.

1990The Passionate Eye, Impressionist and Other Master Paintings from the Collection of Emil G. Bührle, Zurich, Catalogue of the Exhibition in Commemoration of the 100th Birthday of the Collector Emil G. Bührle National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. • Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal • Yokohama Museum of Art • Royal Academy of Arts, London • 1990–91 no. 85.

2005Kokoschka, Beziehungen zur Schweiz Seedamm Kulturzentrum • Pfäffikon (SZ) • 2005–06 fig. 112.

2010Van Gogh, Cézanne, Monet, Die Sammlung Bührle zu Gast im Kunsthaus Zürich Kunsthaus Zurich • 2010 no no.

2017Chefs-d'oeuvre de la collection Bührle, Manet, Cézanne, Monet, Van Gogh… Fondation de l'Hermitage • Lausanne • 2017 no. 53.

References

1954Doris Wild Moderne Kunst in Schweizer Sammlungen  Baden-Baden • 1954 • pp. 18 , 25 (ill.).

1956Hans Maria Wingler Oskar Kokoschka, Das Werk des Malers  Salzburg • 1956 • no. 374 (ill.).

1986Oskar Kokoschka Briefe  vol. 3 • Düsseldorf • 1986 • pp. 258–259, 261.

2010Régine Bonnefoit • Ruth Häusler «Zur Genese der späten Porträts von Oskar Kokoschka» in Régine Bonnefoit, Ruth Häusler (ed.) «Spur im Treibsand», Oskar Kokoschka neu gesehen, Briefe und Bilder  Petersberg • 2010 • p. 97, fig. 1.

2021Lukas Gloor «The Holdings of the Emil Bührle Collection: Illustrated List of All 633 Purchases» in The Emil Bührle Collection: History, Full Catalogue and 70 Masterpieces Swiss Institute for Art Research, Zurich (ed.) • Munich 2021 • no. 230 (ill.).