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Oskar Kokoschka
Austrian painter and writer Oskar Kokoschka, from a German postage stamp, c. 1986.
At the School of Arts and Crafts in Vienna, Oskar Kokoschka learned the following artistic skills:
- Drawing
- Lithography
- Bookbinding
- Other crafts1
Although he gained these technical skills, Kokoschka was notably dissatisfied with the school's curriculum. He felt the institution was devoted entirely to the decorative arts and criticized its failure to include the study of the human figure, which was his primary artistic interest.1