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How did World War I end Oskar Kokoschka’s relationship with Alma Mahler?
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Oskar Kokoschka
Austrian painter and writer Oskar Kokoschka, from a German postage stamp, c. 1986.
The relationship between Oskar Kokoschka and Alma Mahler, which the artist described as the most unquiet time of his life, concluded with the outbreak of World War I and Kokoschka’s subsequent enlistment in the Austrian army.1
Following the end of their three-year affair, Mahler married the architect Walter Gropius in 1915.12