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A major figure in the Expressionist movement, Oskar Kokoschka (1886-1980) studied in Vienna, and early in his career was strongly influenced by Art Nouveau, particularly the elegant style of Gustav Klimt. Around 1909 he painted the first of his Expressionist portraits, which seem to reveal their sitters' emotional life. The restless draftsmanship and broken patterns of color in these likenesses predict the emergence of the artist's mature style in such paintings as Bride of the Wind of 1914.
Seriously wounded in World War I, Kokoschka produced little work until 1924, when he began a series of journeys through Europe and North Africa that refreshed his creative spirit. During this period he embarked on a number of color experiments, particularly in landscape paintings, in which he combined a traditional organization of the painting's space seen from a high viewpoint with brilliant colors, set forth with his characteristic energetic brushwork.
These visionary landscapes communicate a passionate vision, seeming at times exhilarated, at times anguished. In the 1930s, the artist's work was condemned by the Nazi regime as "degenerate" and his paintings in public collections were confiscated. In 1938 he moved to London, and after World War II, to Switzerland, where he spent most of the rest of his life.
Kokoschka's late paintings retain the Expressionist qualities of his best mature work, and though he never fully deserted representation, their increasing abstraction reveals a kinship to Abstract Expressionism.
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In art, Catalogs, Exhibitions, Art, Hand in art, Criticism and interpretation, Courtauld Institute Galleries, Art collections, Private collections, Fondation Oskar Kokoschka, Themes, motives, Kokoschka, oscar, 1886-1980Edition | Availability |
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Kokoschka: träumender Knabe = enfant terrible
2008, Bibliothek der Provinz
in German
3852529026 9783852529028
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Kokoschka: Werke der Stiftung Oskar Kokoschka, Musée Jenisch, Vevey
2001, Edition Braus
in German
3935414064 9783935414067
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Kokoschka: prints, illustrated books, drawings in the Princes Gate Collection : with notes on the paintings : Courtauld Institute Galleries, 9 September to 28 October 1992
1992, Courtauld Institute Galleries
in English
0904563081 9780904563085
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Kokoschka: i viaggi in Italia 1948-1963 : Roma, Palazzo dei Conservatori, 15 settembre-1 novembre 1992.
1992, Edizioni dell'elefante
in Italian
8871760417 9788871760414
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Kokoschka: [catalogue of an exhibition held] July-September 1967 [at]Marlborough Fine Art Ltd].
1967, Marlborough
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Kokoschka
1963, Phaidon Publishers; distributed by New York Graphic Society Publishers, Greenwich, Conn.
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Kokoschka: a retrospective exhibition of paintings, drawings, lithographs, stage designs and books, organized by the Arts Council of Great Britain [and held at] The Tate Gallery, 14 September-11 November 1962, [in 2 fiches]
1962, Arts Council of Great Britain
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