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Oskar Kokoschka (Austria) 1886- |  ARTIST PROFILE
Austrian-born painter of expressionist portraits and landscapes.
Kokoschka was born in Pochlarn, a Danube town, on March 1, 1886. He studied at the Vienna School of Arts and Crafts from 1905 to 1908. As an early exponent of the avant-garde expressionist movement, he began to paint psychologically
penetrating portraits of Viennese physicians, architects, and artists. Among these works are Hans Tietze and Erica Tietze-Conrat (1909, Museum of Modern Art, New York City), August Forel (1910, Mannheim Art Gallery, Germany), and Self-Portrait (1913, Museum of Modern Art).
Kokoschka was wounded
in World War I (1914-1918) and diagnosed as psychologically unstable. He taught art at the Dresden Academy from 1919 to 1924. During this time he painted The Power of Music (1919, Dresden Paintings Collection, Dresden). A succeeding seven-year period of travel in Europe and the Middle East resulted
in a number of robust, brilliantly colored landscapes and figure pieces, painted with great freedom and exuberance. Many of them are views of harbors, mountains, and cities. Examples from this period include Harbor of Marseilles (1925, St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri), View of Cologne (1956,
Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne), and Tower Bridge (1925-1926, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minnesota).
Kokoschka, one of the artists denounced by the Nazi (see National Socialism) government of Germany as degenerate, moved in 1938 to England, where he painted antiwar pictures during World
War II (1939-1945) and became a British subject in 1947. After the war he visited the United States and settled in Switzerland. He died in Montreux on February 22, 1980. Best known as a painter, Kokoschka was also a writer. His literary works include poetry and plays not translated into English and
a collection of short stories, A Sea Ringed with Visions (1956; translated 1962).
"Kokoschka, Oskar," Microsoft® Encarta® Online Encyclopedia 2001
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RELATED EXHIBITIONS
 Madrid : Kokoschka. Max Schmidt, Adolf Loos and their friends at Thyssen-Bornemisza
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 | | Title: | Annunciation | | Medium: | 1911, dimensions 83?122cm, Oil on canvas | | Exhibited at: | Museum am Ostwall | |
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 | | Title: | Dolomite Landscape | | Medium: | 1913, dimensions 82?119cm, Oil on canvas | | Exhibited at: | Private collection | |
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 | | Title: | Lovers with a Cat | | Medium: | 1917, dimensions 93?130cm, Oil on canvas | | Exhibited at: | Kunsthaus Zurich | |
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 | | Title: | Portrait of Adolf Loos | | Medium: | 1909, dimensions 74?91cm, Oil on canvas | | Exhibited at: | Nationalgalerie, Berlin | |
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