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somethingchanged: Oskar Kokoschka, Portrait of Lotte Franzos 1910. “From 1909 to 1911, Oskar Kokoschka worked on a portfolio of portraits organised by his patron, Adolf Loos. The art historian and artist Lotte Franzos was one of his first clients. Though a close friend of Kokoschka’s, she was appalled by the image and its disregard for her own ‘likeness’. So were the critics, who covered their noses against the ‘foul smell’ of her ‘rotting body’, which assailed them on first seeing the work at Vienna’s Hagenbund exhibition of 1911.” Madness & Modernity: Mental illness and the visual arts in Vienna 1900 

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Oskar Kokoschka, Portrait of Lotte Franzos 1910.

“From 1909 to 1911, Oskar Kokoschka worked on a portfolio of portraits organised by his patron, Adolf Loos. The art historian and artist Lotte Franzos was one of his first clients. Though a close friend of Kokoschka’s, she was appalled by the image and its disregard for her own ‘likeness’. So were the critics, who covered their noses against the ‘foul smell’ of her ‘rotting body’, which assailed them on first seeing the work at Vienna’s Hagenbund exhibition of 1911.”

Madness & Modernity: Mental illness and the visual arts in Vienna 1900