Die träumenden Knaben (The Dreaming Youths), 1907-08 (published 1917)
Color lithographs and line block illustrations; letterpress; bound volumeexpand_more
Gift of Ruth and Bruce Daytonexpand_more B.89.4
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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.
Details
- Title
- Die träumenden Knaben (The Dreaming Youths)
- Artist Life
- 1886–1980
- Role
- Artist
- Accession Number
- B.89.4
- Provenance
- Ruth and Bruce Dayton, Wayzata, Minn.; given to MIA, 1989.
- Catalogue Raisonne
- W.W. 22-29; V&A 22-29; A. 1-8
- Curator Approved
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