This portrait of the Austrian composer Anton Webern (1883-1945) was painted in 1908 by Max Oppenheimer, an Austrian Expressionist with a special interest in contemporary cultural figures. At the time, Webern was a 25 year-old musicologist who’d only recently graduated from the University of Vienna. Although he’d studied composition with Arnold Schönberg…
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