“would only have to put out one claw to save him from drowning, but remains aloof.”
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Oskar Kokoschka
Oskar Kokoschka 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.
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culture · Austrian dramatic, painter and writer (1886–1980) · painter · playwright · poet · university teacher · designer · graphic artist · draftsperson · visual artist · illustrator · writer · also Oskar Kokoschka, Oscar Kokoschka, O. Kokoschka, kokoschka, o. kokoschka, Kokoschka
Born 1 March 1886 · Died 22 February 1980 · Q154260
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2026· 4 entries
“the basis of [his] artistic training”
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Artnet news: Oskar Kokoschka
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Artnet news: Oskar Kokoschka. A Retrospective
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2024· 1 entry
Neue Zürcher Zeitung: Oskar Kokoschka: In den Fängen der Windsbraut
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2023· 1 entry
Hyperallergic: An Incomplete Portrait of Oskar Kokoschka
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2020· 2 entries
Deutschlandfunk: Vor 40 Jahren gestorben - Oskar Kokoschka: Maler des Expressionismus
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DiePresse: Oskar Kokoschka: Ekstase als lebenslange Weggefährtin
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2019· 1 entry
Lübecker Nachrichten Online: Ausstellung in Eutin: Wie Oskar Kokoschka die Welt sah
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2018· 1 entry
insider.si.edu: Oskar Kokoschka : expressionist, migrant, European : a retrospective / Cathérine Hug and Heike Eipeldauer ; with contributions by Régine Bonnefoit [and twelve others]
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1980· 2 entries
Died 1980-02-22.
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Alfred Weidinger, Alice Strobl: Oskar Kokoschka
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1976· 1 entry
Awarded Lovis Corinth Prize (1976).
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1966· 1 entry
Won the competition for the commissioned portrait of Konrad Adenauer for the German Bundestag against his competitor Eugen Denzel
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1960· 1 entry
Awarded Erasmus Prize (1960).
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1952· 1 entry
Awarded Lichtwark Prize (1952).
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1947· 1 entry
Before settling in Villeneuve, Switzerland in 1953, where he lived the rest of his life
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1938· 2 entries
As a result of their Jewish heritage, but were able to take with them this portrait that they refused to exhibit until it was purchased by the Museum of Modern Art in 1939
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When the Czechs began to mobilize for the expected invasion by the Wehrmacht, he fled to the United Kingdom and remained there during the war
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1919· 1 entry
Kokoschka began teaching at the Kunstakademie Dresden
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1915· 1 entry
And lived with him until their divorce in 1920
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1912· 2 entries
Five years after the death of her four-year-old daughter Maria Mahler and two years after her affair with Walter Gropius, later a celebrated architect in Berlin
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Kokoschka delivered his essay “Von der Natur der Gesichte” (“On the Nature of Visions”) at the Akademischen Verband für Literatur und Musik in Vienna
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1910· 1 entry
The same year the Neue Secession was established in Berlin
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1908· 1 entry
Kokoschka was offered the opportunity of submitting works to the first Vienna Kunstschau
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1897· 1 entry
A type of secondary school, where emphasis was placed on the study of modern subjects such as the sciences and language
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1886· 1 entry
Born 1886-03-01.
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