  About the Artwork
  
  
  Between 1924 and 1933, Oskar Kokoschka traveled intensively through Europe, North Africa, and Middle East, often painting views of the places he visited. He began View of Jerusalem in Palestine in late 1929 and finished it in Vienna in the spring of 1930. From an elevated vantage point, Kokoschka looks far into the distance at the isolated city, aiming to convey its spiritual character beyond the pure topographical information. The painting illustrates a considerable change in Kokoschka’s technique, in which he uses shorter brushstrokes and suppresses dramatic light contrasts. The freely gestural surface is built in a limited color palette into an atmospheric landscape.
  
  
  Title
  View of Jerusalem
  
  
  Artwork Date
  1929-1930
  
  Artist
  Oskar Kokoschka
  
  
  
  Life Dates
  1886-1980
  
  
  
  
  Nationality
  
  
  
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  Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation.
  
  
  
  Austrian
  
  
  
  Culture
  
  
  
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  Medium
  Oil on canvas
  
  
  Dimensions
  Unframed: 31 1/2 × 50 1/2 inches (80 × 128.3 cm)
  Framed: 42 7/8 × 61 13/16 × 4 1/2 inches (108.9 × 157 × 11.4 cm)
  
  
  Classification
  Paintings
  
  
  Department
  European Modern Art to 1970
  
  
  Credit
  Founders Society Purchase, General Membership Fund
  
  
  
  Accession Number
  
  
  
  This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection.
  Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings.
  For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups.
  
  
  
  35.110
  
  
  Copyright
  © Estate of Oskar Kokoschka / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
