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The ok doll
The Austrian painter Oskar Kokoschka fell in violent carnal love with Alma Mahler, Gustav Mahler’s widow. They had a temptuous affair and Alma aborted Oskar’s child and left him. Distraught and disorientated, wishing for oblivion, Oskar signed up as a soldier and was wounded in chest and head in the trenches of the First World War. He could not forget or forgive Alma and he had her dressmaker make him a life-sized model of her, complete with the full anatomy for making love. He lived with this model for three years, taking it to the opera, to church, to the beach, to restaurants and country picnics and obsessively painting it in his studio. The gap between believing and not believing in the doll’s existence as a human being was thin and subject to violent mood swings.. L'histoire de la poupée de Oskar Kokoschka, substitut d'Alma Malher, revisité par Peter Greenaway pour son prochain film.
