Oskar Kokoschka

1886–1980

Oskar Kokoschka, ‘The Crab’ 1939–40
The Crab 1939–40
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Walk Through British Art: 1940

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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.

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  • Josef Herman, Refugees, c1941, gouache on paper, 47 x 39.5 cm

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    In Focus: Émigré Artists

    Monica Bohm-Duchen

    Amid the continuing refugee crisis across Europe and rise of right-wing politics, Monica Bohm-Duchen looks back at a time of …

  • Oskar Kokoschka, ‘Dr Fannina W. Halle’ c.1910–12

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    Secession

    The breaking away of younger and more radical artists from an existing academy or art group to form a new …

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    Expressionism

    Expressionism refers to art in which the image of reality is distorted in order to make it expressive of the …

  • Interior of the Secession building at its opening in 1898

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    Secession

    Eleanora Louis

    Eleanora Louis looks at the history of the Vienna Secession.

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