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0783OrpheusEurydice_Kokoschka1

OGCMA s.v. "Orpheus and Eurydice"
Classical Sources:
Plato, Symposium, 179c-e
Diodorus Siculus, Bibl., 4.25.4, 81-82
Vergil, Georgics 4.315-558
Ovid Metamorphoses 10.1-85, 11.66
Apollodorus Libr. 1.3.2
Hyginus Poet. Astron. 2.7

Oskar Kokoschka, Orpheus und Eurydike, stage play, 1910. Published in Vier Dramen (Berlin: Cassirer, 1919) with 6 etchings by author; but premiered 1920 in Vienna.

NB: Kokoschka's text was adapted by Ernst Krenek as the libretto for his 1923 opera Orpheus und Eurydike (OGCMA0793OrpheusEurydice_
KrenekOGCMA/0793Orpheus
Eurydice_Krenek.htm).

Kokoschka's painting, "Orpheus and Eurydice" (click), shows the artist's continued attention to the myth. Kokoschka's pastel scenery designs were painted in 1958.

Reid cites

H. Wingler, Oskar Kokoschka: the work of the painter (Salzburg: Welz, 1958), no. 117, and

Galerie des Beaux-Arts, Bordeaux, Oskar Kokoschka, 1886 - 1980 ... p. 208

OGCMA slides are designed by Roger T. Macfarlane for use in Classical Civilization 241 courses at Brigham Young University.
The present resource contains information assembled for The Oxford Guide to Classical Mythology in the Arts, 1300 - 1990's, edited by J. Davidson Reid (Oxford 1994), and it is used with express permission from Oxford University press.
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