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Die träumenden Knaben (The Dreaming Youths)

Oskar Kokoschka; Author: Oskar Kokoschka; Publisher: Kurt Wolff Verlag, Vienna, austria

Date

1907–08 (published 1917)

Medium

Color lithographs and line block illustrations, letterpress, bound volume

Department

European Art

Institution

Minneapolis Institute of Art

The Dreaming Youths was Kokoschka's first graphic work, published when the artist was only twenty-one years old. Commissioned by the Weiner Werkstätte, the important progenitor of Jugendstil (Viennese Art Nouveau), Kokoschka's illustrated book was designed as a picture-poem featuring ten lithographs and a text written by the artist. Kokoschka's colorful, exotic landscape imagery supports the book's loose narrative, a stream-of-consciousness account of the fantastic dreams of adolescent boys. When first published in 1908, only a few copies of the book were sold. The remaining edition was later purchased by a German publisher and re-issued in the present binding in 1917. Austria, Europe

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