les-sources-du-nil:Oskar Kokoschka’s Alma-Doll (Alma...

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Oskar Kokoschka’s Alma-Doll (Alma Mahler) and the puppet maker Hermine Moos.Anonymous Photographer, Munich, 1919

In July I9I8 Oskar Kokoschka ordered a life-size doll from the Munich doll-maker Hermine Moos as a substitute for his lost love. It was to be made to look exactly like Alma Mahler. On July 22 he already returned a model of the head, having checked it and made suggestions as to how the work should proceed. “If you are able to carry out this task as I would wish, to...