grupaok:Anonymous Photographer, Oskar Kokoschka’s Alma-Doll, Munich 1919. ‘Kokoschka commissio
grupaok:Anonymous Photographer, Oskar Kokoschka’s Alma-Doll, Munich 1919. ‘Kokoschka commissioned a life size doll to replace his former lover Alma Mahler, who had recently left him for the dashing young architect Walter Gropius. Unhinged from pining for the beautiful Alma, Kokoschka is known to have taken the giant doll everywhere, dressing and grooming her as well as travelling and dining publicly with his lifeless companion. Eventually at the close of a drunken party, Kokoschka decapitated his stuffed bride, severing his obsessive love in an intoxicated ritual of simil-homicide.“ -- source link
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