Oskar Kokoschka

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World War II and after

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How does Oskar Kokoschka’s painting Herodotus express the importance of memory?
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What features characterize Oskar Kokoschka’s panoramic landscapes of the 1920s?
What political ideas did Oskar Kokoschka criticize in the Dresden Manifesto?
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When and where was Oskar Kokoschka born?
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Where did Oskar Kokoschka hold his first solo exhibition?
Where did Oskar Kokoschka recover after being wounded in World War I?
Where did Oskar Kokoschka study art after winning a scholarship at age 18?
Where did Oskar Kokoschka teach from 1919 to 1923?
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Which cities did Oskar Kokoschka paint in works such as London: Large Thames View and Jerusalem?
Which composer adapted Oskar Kokoschka’s Orpheus und Eurydike into an opera?
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Which mythological subjects did Oskar Kokoschka paint in the 1950s?
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Which play by Oskar Kokoschka helped announce Expressionist theatre?
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Why did Oskar Kokoschka become disillusioned with revolution after World War I?
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Oskar Kokoschka

Austrian painter and writer

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Art historian. Former director and designer of books for Phaidon Press Ltd., London. Author of Kokoschka; Michelangelo; and numerous other classic works on the art of antiquity, the Italian Renaissance,...

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Oskar Kokoschka (born March 1, 1886, Pöchlarn, Austria—died February 22, 1980, Montreux, Switzerland) was an Austrian painter and writer who was one of the leading exponents of Expressionism. In his early portraits, gesture intensifies the psychological penetration of character; especially powerful among his later works are allegories of the artist’s emphatic humanism. His dramas, poems, and prose are significant for their psychological insight and stylistic daring. When Kokoschka was three years old, his father went...

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