Artist: Oskar Kokoschka (1886 - 1980)
Nationality: Austrian
Movement: Expressionism
Media: Painting
Influences:

Biography:
Austrian printmaker and painter, Oskar Kokoschka, studied at the Vienna School of Arts and Crafts from 1905 to 1909. His colorful and telling portraits are his favored works, although he also painted land and cityscapes. He was wounded in World War I, and returned to teach at the Dresden Academy of Art from 1919 to 1924. After traveling in Europe and the United States, Kokoschka settled in Prague for several years until the Nazi’s took over Czechoslovakia. In 1938, he moved to England for six years, but eventually traveled to Montreux, Switzerland and passed away in 1980.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (60)
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Oskar Kokoschka Portrait of a Girl Lithograph 1922
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Oskar Kokoschka After Kokoschka: Biedermeier Woman in a Meadow Color lithograph postcard from the Wiener Werkstatte 1908
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Oskar Kokoschka Portrait of Ezra Pound Lithograph 1964
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Oskar Kokoschka Self-Portrait 1921 lithograph 1921
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Oskar Kokoschka Portrait of the actress Maria Orska Lithograph 1922
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Oskar Kokoschka Paris Opera oil on canvas 19th - 20th century
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Oskar Kokoschka Der Wandrer from Bachkantata #2 Lithograph 19th - 20th century
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Oskar Kokoschka: A Retrospective Exhibition, Oskar Kokoschka (Austria, Pöchlarn, 1886 - 1980) , 1948, Printed material and two lithographs on wove paper
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Oskar Kokoschka Portrait of the Actress Maria Orska Lithograph 1922
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Erzählung und Lithographien von Oskar Kokoschka, Oskar Kokoschka (Austria, Pöchlarn, 1886 - 1980) , 1952, Printed material with ten lithographs on wove paper plus one on the cover
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Oskar Kokoschka Hiob Lithograph 19th - 20th century
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Oskar Kokoschka Hiob Lithograph 19th - 20th century
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Oskar Kokoschka Hiob Lithograph 19th - 20th century
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Oskar Kokoschka Portrait of the Artist's Mother Lithograph 19th - 20th century
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Oskar Kokoschka Selbstbildnis (Self-Portrait on his 70th Birthday) Color lithograph 1956
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Oskar Kokoschka In Memory of the Children of Europe Who Have to Die of Cold and Hunger this Xmas Lithograph 1945
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Oskar Kokoschka After Kokokschka: Seated Girl and Farm Scenes Color lithograph postcard from the Winer Werkstatte 1908
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Oskar Kokoschka Mein Lied by Alfred Ehrenstein(Berlin: Ernst Rowohlt, 1931) book with reproductions of lithographs after drawings 1931
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Oskar Kokoschka Illustration for Shakespeare's "The Tempest." "We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep." Lithograph 19th - 20th century
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Corona II, Oskar Kokoschka (Austria, Pöchlarn, 1886 - 1980) , 1918, Lithograph of wove paper
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Artist: Oskar Kokoschka Title: The Duomo, Florence Date: 1948 Medium: oil on canvas Dimensions: H.38
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The apple of Eve, Oskar Kokoschka (Austria, Pöchlarn, 1886 - 1980) , 1913, Lithograph on J. W. Zanders paper
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Encounter, Oskar Kokoschka (Austria, Pöchlarn, 1886 - 1980) , 1913, Lithograph on J. W. Zanders paper
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Gouchester Led by the Old Man, Oskar Kokoschka (Austria, Pöchlarn, 1886 - 1980) , 1963, Lithograph on Crisbrook paper
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Edmund, Oskar Kokoschka (Austria, Pöchlarn, 1886 - 1980) , 1963, Lithographs on Crisbrook paper
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The Last Judgment, Oskar Kokoschka (Austria, Pöchlarn, 1886 - 1980) , 1913, Lithograph on J. W. Zanders paper
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Cordelia, Oskar Kokoschka (Austria, Pöchlarn, 1886 - 1980) , 1963, Lithograph on Crisbrook paper
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Edgar, Oskar Kokoschka (Austria, Pöchlarn, 1886 - 1980) , 1963, Lithograph on Crisbrook paper
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Lear, Oskar Kokoschka (Austria, Pöchlarn, 1886 - 1980) , 1963, Lithograph on Crisbrook paper
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Lear, Oskar Kokoschka (Austria, Pöchlarn, 1886 - 1980) , 1963, Lithograph on Crisbrook paper
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Portrait of a girl, Oskar Kokoschka (Austria, Pöchlarn, 1886 - 1980) , 1923, Lithograph on laid paper
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Allegorical or Mythological Subject, Oskar Kokoschka (Austria, Pöchlarn, 1886 - 1980) , 1966, Lithograph
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Portrait, Ruth 5, Oskar Kokoschka (Austria, Pöchlarn, 1886 - 1980) , September 23, 1961, Lithograph
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The clear face, Oskar Kokoschka (Austria, Pöchlarn, 1886 - 1980) , 1913, Lithograph on J. W. Zanders paper
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At the fork in the road, Oskar Kokoschka (Austria, Pöchlarn, 1886 - 1980) , 1913, Lithograph on J. W. Zanders paper
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Gloucester and Edgar, Oskar Kokoschka (Austria, Pöchlarn, 1886 - 1980) , 1963, Lithograph on Crisbrook paper
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The face of Woman, Oskar Kokoschka (Austria, Pöchlarn, 1886 - 1980) , 1913, Lithograph on J. W. Zanders paper
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Storm, Oskar Kokoschka (Austria, Pöchlarn, 1886 - 1980) , 1916-1917, Lithograph on japan paper
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The path to the grave, Oskar Kokoschka (Austria, Pöchlarn, 1886 - 1980) , 1913, Lithograph on J. W. Zanders paper
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Couple in candlelight, Oskar Kokoschka (Austria, Pöchlarn, 1886 - 1980) , 1913, Lithograph on J. W. Zanders paper
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The intruders, Oskar Kokoschka (Austria, Pöchlarn, 1886 - 1980) , 1913, Lithograph on simili-japan paper
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The murder, Oskar Kokoschka (Austria, Pöchlarn, 1886 - 1980) , 1913, Lithograph on simili-japan paper
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The last camp, Oskar Kokoschka (Austria, Pöchlarn, 1886 - 1980) , 1914, Lithograph on Van Gelder Zonen paper
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Eavesdropper, Oskar Kokoschka (Austria, Pöchlarn, 1886 - 1980) , 1913, Lithograph on simili-japan paper
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The supplicant, Oskar Kokoschka (Austria, Pöchlarn, 1886 - 1980) , 1914, Lithograph on Van Gelder Zonen paper
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The supplicant, Oskar Kokoschka (Austria, Pöchlarn, 1886 - 1980) , 1918, Lithograph on Van Gelder Zonen paper
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The last camp, Oskar Kokoschka (Austria, Pöchlarn, 1886 - 1980) , 1918, Lithograph on Van Gelder Zonen paper
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Goneril and Edmund, Oskar Kokoschka (Austria, Pöchlarn, 1886 - 1980) , 1963, Lithograph on Crisbrook paper
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Lear and Fool, Oskar Kokoschka (Austria, Pöchlarn, 1886 - 1980) , 1963, Lithograph on Crisbrook paper
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King Lear, Oskar Kokoschka (Austria, Pöchlarn, 1886 - 1980) , 1963, Sixteen lithographs on Crisbrook paper
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The Chinese wall, Oskar Kokoschka (Austria, Pöchlarn, 1886 - 1980) , 1914, Eight lithographs on simili-japan paper
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The new Columbus and Saint George, Oskar Kokoschka (Austria, Pöchlarn, 1886 - 1980) , 1913, Lithograph on J. W. Zanders paper
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Corona I, Oskar Kokoschka (Austria, Pöchlarn, 1886 - 1980) , 1918, Lithograph printed in red-brown on J. W. Zanders paper
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Woman bent over phantom, Oskar Kokoschka (Austria, Pöchlarn, 1886 - 1980) , 1913, Lithograph on J. W. Zanders paper
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The woman leads the man, Oskar Kokoschka (Austria, Pöchlarn, 1886 - 1980) , 1914, Lithograph on Van Gelder Zonen paper
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Dragons over a flame, Oskar Kokoschka (Austria, Pöchlarn, 1886 - 1980) , 1916, Lithograph on Van Gelder Zonen paper
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Pieta: ’It is enough’, Oskar Kokoschka (Austria, Pöchlarn, 1886 - 1980) , 1916, Lithograph on Van Gelder Zonen paper
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The woman triumphs over the corpse, Oskar Kokoschka (Austria, Pöchlarn, 1886 - 1980) , 1913, Lithograph on J. W. Zanders paper
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Pieta: ’It is enough’, Oskar Kokoschka (Austria, Pöchlarn, 1886 - 1980) , 1918, Lithograph on Van Gelder Zonen paper
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Lear with Cordelia in His Arms, Oskar Kokoschka (Austria, Pöchlarn, 1886 - 1980) , 1963, Lithograph on Crisbrook paper

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (14)
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Albertina: EGON SCHIELE AND AUSTRIAN EXPRESSIONISM Fondazione Antonio Mazzotta, Milan
The exhibition shows a concentrated overview of key Expressionist positions: Alongside the main figure Egon Schiele, works of particular significance from...
Fondazione Antonio Mazzotta: Egon Schiele and Austrian Expressionists 1908-1925
However, while the previous initiative aimed at the globality of the Secession movement and its protagonists, in this case the preference was to focus attention on five im...
JEWISH MUSEUM: Berlin Metropolis: Jews And The New Culture, 1890-1918
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Museen der Stadt Wien: Dreams 1900-2000: Art, Science and the Unconscious
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Galerie St. Etienne: Coming of Age: Egon Schiele and the Modernist Culture of Youth
"COMING OF AGE" also includes works by Erich Heckel, E.L. Kirchner, Oskar Kokoschka, Paula Modersohn-Becker, Edvard Munch and others. At the turn of the 20th century, the notion of adolescence as a distinct developmental phase between childhood...
Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford University: The Artist Observed: Portraits and Self-Portraits
Included are works by such influential artists as Anthony Van Dyck, Rembrandt van Rijn, Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, James McNeill Whistler, Auguste Rodin, Oskar Kokoschka, and Ansel Adams. Their observations create a lively narrative across fo...
Judy A Saslow Gallery: The Artists of Gugging
In 1981, Navratil founded "The Center for Art and Psychotherapy" where he invited many of these talented patients to live and work together in one house. In 1986, Navratil retired and Dr. Johann Feilacher became his successor. Dr. Feilacher chang...
Photofusion Photography Centre: Erich Lessing: People Known and Unknown
The post-war period of the 1950s saw the growth of the professional photographer in search of a story. While many stories were arranged by editors who gave exact instructions on how a feature should be illustrated, many photographers, including Le...
Cambridge Galleries, Preston: Peter Smith: Half Life
"Though I start a piece from notes in my sketch books, each work eventually takes it's own direction and I follow." Peter Smith was born in Toronto in 1959. He first received art lessons in lieu of rent from an artist who lived above his fa...
Guggenheim Museum: Connecting Museums: One of the First Manifestations of the Guggenheim-Hermitage-Kunsthistorisches Collaboration
Connecting Museums, one of the first manifestations of the Guggenheim-Hermitage-Kunsthistorisches collaboration, will be an ongoing series of focused exhibitions in which masterpieces from each collection are on view at the three partner instituti...
Guggenheim Hermitage Museum: A Century of Painting: From Renoir to Rothko
We are very pleased to present this exhibition of modern masterpieces from the permanent collection of the Guggenheim," said Thomas Krens, Director, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation. "Renoir to Rothko offers a sweeping overview of painting from th...
Galerie St. Etienne: Cafe Culture: Art and Society in Early 20th Century Austria and Germany
The café and its nighttime counterpart, the cabaret, were meeting grounds for all members of society in early twentieth century Austria and Germany, fermenting artistic movements and influencing artists’ subject matter. The cross-fertilization tha...
Tate Modern: Century City: Art and Culture in the Modern Metropolis
The cities and periods are: Paris 1910s: The French capital became the centre of an international avant-garde, following the explosion of the Fauves onto the Parisian art scene in 1905. Paris during ...
MASS MoCA: Uncommon Denominator: New Art from Vienna
In 2002, MASS MoCA (Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art) is spotlighting these artists with a major exhibition, Uncommon Denominator: New Art from Vienna which presents more than 70 works by 14 individuals and one group in a range of medi...

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Biographie: Oskar Kokoschka, 1886-1980
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