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Jan 6, 2015 · Alma Mahler (1879-1964) by Oskar Kokoschka (1886-1980). Oskar Kokoschka was an Austrian artist, poet and playwright best known for his intense expressionistic portraits and landscapes. He was born in Pöchlarn, second child to Gustav Josef Kokoschka, a Czech goldsmith, and Maria Romana Kokoschka. His older brother died in infancy in 1887; he ...
The Bride of the Wind (Die Windsbraut), also called The Tempest, is a 1913–1914 painting by Oskar Kokoschka. The oil on canvas work is housed in the Kunstmuseum Basel . Kokoschka's best known work, it is an allegorical picture featuring a self-portrait by the artist, lying alongside his lover Alma Mahler .
- 181 cm × 220 cm (71 in × 87 in)
- Oskar Kokoschka
- 1913–1914
- Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland
November 12, 2016 – April 16, 2017. The expressionist artist, poet and playwright Oskar Kokoschka (Austria, 1886-1980) first met Alma Mahler, the widow of composer Gustav Mahler, on April 12, 1912, in Vienna. It was the beginning of a tragic love story that would end just three years later. One of fin-de-siècle Vienna’s most extraordinary ...
Jul 2, 2019 · Love story in paintings: Oskar Kokoschka, Alma Mahler and Olda Palkovská. Like 22. Austrian artist Oskar Kokoschka was in love twice. His first relationship lasted for three years, and the second — 44. The first had hundreds of biographical and belles-lettres works ( as well as articles in glossy magazines) written about, while the second ...
Oskar Kokoschka CBE (1 March 1886 – 22 February 1980) was an Austrian artist, poet, playwright, and teacher best known for his intense expressionistic portraits and landscapes, as well as his theories on vision that influenced the Viennese Expressionist movement.
- 22 February 1980 (aged 93), Montreux, Switzerland
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Mahler recalled, "The three years with him were a single, intense battle of love. Never before have I tasted so much strain, so much hell, so much paradise." During their time together, Kokoschka painted many portraits of the couple, including Double portrait of Oskar Kokoschka and Alma Mahler (1912-1913), in which Alma is depicted wearing a ...
Oskar Kokoschka and Alma Mahler. Bride of the wind. Our story, the story of Alma Mahler and Oskar Kokoschka, is based entirely on time and attraction. It will last only two years and will lead the artist to the realization of some of his most powerful works. The years ’12 and ’14 are dominated by the figure of Alma.
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