Woman in Blue

In Vienna at the beginning of the 20th century, the young painter Oskar Kokoschka fell in love with Alma Mahler, a well-known salon hostess in Viennese society and widow of the composer Gustav Mahler. The obsessive love that Oskar Kokoschka developed for Alma Mahler within a very short time found expression in paintings, drawings, fans and a mural. He reached the peak of this creative obsession around 1919, when he had a life-size doll modelled on Alma Mahler made by the doll maker Hermine Moos. Woman in Blue (1919) was the first painting to take the doll as its subject and marked a turning point in Kokoschka’s painting style.
For the first time in over 30 years, Kokoschka’s works inspired by Alma Mahler are united in one exhibition. This cycle is both a contemporary testimony and a major expressionist work; it shows the drama of the love affair and tells of its reverberations.
The exhibition is part of the joint project Double portraits – Alma Mahler-Werfel in the Mirror of Viennese Modernism.

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TICKETS
To visit the exhibition opening and the opening event on 19 March 2025, as well as to visit the exhibition on all other opening days (from 20 March), it is necessary to book a free online ticket. Unfortunately, capacity is very limited.

UNFORTUNATELY THE OPENING IS FULLY BOOKED!

You can get TICKETS to visit the exhibition from 20 March HERE.