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2 days ago · With Oskar Kokoschka (1886–1980), Egon Schiele (1890–1918), and Edvard Munch (1863–1944), we move within the avant-garde context, that is the aesthetic revolution that at the beginning of the twentieth century brought down the temperance of the middle class, the popular taste, the art academies. 2 Specifically, in antithesis to Impressionism, Expressionism may be defined “as the ...
2 days ago · Thomas also wrote a short 2 min read article about Oskar Kokoschka with a summary inforgraphic. The Second World War engulfed Europe in the 1930s and 40s. In 1939, Britain marked the beginning of the struggle against the Nazi regime. For Oskar Kokoschka, 1939 was another tragedy. He was born in Austria in 1886 and showed artistic talent.
3 days ago · St. Louis. The Saint Louis Art Museum houses one of North America’s best collections of modern German paintings. It includes pictures by Vasily Kandinsky, Emil Nolde, Lyonel Feininger, Paul Klee,...
2 days ago · A new edition of her 1980s autobiography brings this vivacious and well-connected artist back to life. “How dull to live in a standardised world,” comments Eileen Agar (1899-1991) in A Look at ...
3 days ago · To no one’s surprise, Gropius failed to meet Alma’s standards, and she dumped him for the artist Oskar Kokoschka whom she subsequently dumped because, as she told a friend, “Oskar is not a genius, and I only marry geniuses.” Being no genius, Kokoschka took this even harder than Mahler.
1 day ago · Later around the 1960s the collection grew considerably to include works by expressionist artists such as Oskar Kokoschka, Richard Gerstl, and Gustav Klimt. In his lifetime Rudolf Leopold collected not only works of art, but also furniture and decorative artifacts belonging to the Jugendstil and Wiener Werkstätte , created by artists such as ...
2 days ago · Confessing Weakness is the title of Philipp Gufler's exhibition as part of the Summer Academy Salzburg 2024
