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Biography. Oskar Kokoschka (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.
Apr 28, 2024 · Art historian. Former director and designer of books for Phaidon Press Ltd., London. Author of Kokoschka; Michelangelo; and numerous other classic works on the art of antiquity, the Italian Renaissance,...
Oskar Kokoschka (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.
Labeled a “degenerate” artist by the Nazis, who confiscated 417 works from German museums. To avoid Nazis, fled to Prague (1934–38), then London (1938–53). Spent final years, from 1953 to 1980, in Switzerland. Ultimately made more than 560 prints, approximately one-third in the 1910s and 1920s.
Mar 1, 1886 - Feb 22, 1980. Oskar Kokoschka CBE was an Austrian artist, poet, playwright, and teacher best known for his intense expressionistic portraits and landscapes, as well as his...
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All artists. Oskar Kokoschka Self-Portrait of a Degenerate Artist 1937 © Fondation Oskar Kokoschka. DACS, London 2023. Reproduced courtesy of a private collection on long term loan to the National Galleries of Scotland. Biography. Born 1886. Died 1980. Nationalities Austrian. Czech. Birth place Pöchlarn. Death place Montreux.
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