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Among them were seven intricately painted swanskin fans that Kokoschka decorated for her between 1912 and 1914, partly as gifts and partly because he had chosen the illumination of fans as a special project for Vienna's famous arts and crafts school, the Wiener Werkstatte, where he worked as an apprentice and later as a teacher. Al though one was destroyed, the remaining six were acquired by Hamburg's Museum of Arts and Crafts in West Germany. Their jaded elegance evokes the Vienna of the Habsburgs, Freud and Franz Lehar, though they would have rocked the city...
...Alma wrote, noting that it showed her "trustfully clinging to him, expecting all help from him who, despotic of face, radiating energy, calms the mountainous waves." The theme of Tempest is repeated in miniature form-as the entwined lovers on the Bay of Naples-on one of the seven swanskin fans. On another, Kokoschka inscribed the Alma of the Alpine mural, adding himself as St. George fighting the dragon. Today Kokoschka refers to the fans as "love letters in pictures...
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