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Oskar Kokoschka
Austrian painter and writer Oskar Kokoschka, from a German postage stamp, c. 1986.
Following his father's bankruptcy during a financial crash when he was three years old, Oskar Kokoschka’s family was forced to relocate to Vienna. In their new circumstances, his father worked as a traveling salesman, and his mother managed the household on limited financial means.1