Hans Tietze and Erica Tietze-Conrat  1909

Ιn 1909 the Viennese art historians Hans and Erica Tietze asked the twenty-three year-old Kokoschka to paint a marriage portrait for their mantelpiece. Mrs. Tietze recalled that she and her husband were painted individually, a fact suggested by their separate poses and gazes. [br] Kokoschka used thin layers of color to create the hazy atmosphere surrounding the couple, a...