![1925, Oskar Kokoschka, View of Vernet-les-Bains [Ansicht von Vernet-les-Bains] -- Albertina (Vienna) | by R.M.Lenox](http://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54456646549_78041917e4.jpg)
1925, Oskar Kokoschka, View of Vernet-les-Bains [Ansicht von Vernet-les-Bains] -- Albertina (Vienna)
From the museum label: In 1923, Kokoschka, took a two-year leave of absence from the Dresden Academy, where he had been teaching since 1919, in order to travel to Southern France and Spain to paint there. He was accompanied by his then-lover, the Russian singing student Anna Kallin, and the art dealer Jacob Goldschmidt. The journey led them via Geneva, Nice, Marseille, Avignon, and Montpellier to the resort of Vernet-les-Bains in the French Pyrenees, where he had to wait five days for his entry visa for Spain. During his stay there he painted this view from his room at the Hôtel du Portugal over a lush garden, with the townscape of Vernet-les-Bains and the snow-covered summits of the Pyrenees in the distance.
1925, Oskar Kokoschka, View of Vernet-les-Bains [Ansicht von Vernet-les-Bains] -- Albertina (Vienna)
From the museum label: In 1923, Kokoschka, took a two-year leave of absence from the Dresden Academy, where he had been teaching since 1919, in order to travel to Southern France and Spain to paint there. He was accompanied by his then-lover, the Russian singing student Anna Kallin, and the art dealer Jacob Goldschmidt. The journey led them via Geneva, Nice, Marseille, Avignon, and Montpellier to the resort of Vernet-les-Bains in the French Pyrenees, where he had to wait five days for his entry visa for Spain. During his stay there he painted this view from his room at the Hôtel du Portugal over a lush garden, with the townscape of Vernet-les-Bains and the snow-covered summits of the Pyrenees in the distance.