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Oskar Kokoschka

Oskar Kokoschka. Oskar Kokoschka  (1 March 1886 – 22 February 1980) was an Austrian artist, poet and playwright best known for his intense expressionistic portraits and landscapes. The Bride of the Wind.

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Oskar Kokoschka

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  1. Oskar Kokoschka

  2. Oskar Kokoschka (1 March 1886 – 22 February 1980) wasan Austrian artist, poet andplaywright best known for his intense expressionistic portraits and landscapes.

  3. The Bride of the Wind Kokoschka was born in Pöchlarn. His early career was marked by portraits of Viennese celebrities, painted in a nervously animated style. He served in the Austrian army in World War I and was wounded. At the hospital, the doctors decided that he was mentally unstable. Nevertheless, he continued to develop his career as an artist, traveling across Europe and painting the landscape.

  4. Kokoschka had a passionate, often stormy affair with Alma Mahler, shortly after the death of her four-year-old daughter Maria Mahler and her affair with Walter Gropius. After several years together, Alma rejected him, explaining that she was afraid of being too overcome with passion. He continued to love her his entire life, and one of his greatest works The Bride of the Wind (The Tempest), is a tribute to her. His poem Allos Markar  was inspired by this relationship.

  5. In the Second World War Oskar Kokoschka and his wife lived in Ullapool, Wester Ross for several summer months. There he drew with colored pencil (a technique he developed for itself only in Scotland), and painted many local landscape views in watercolour.

  6. Kokoschka had much in common with his contemporary Max Beckmann. Both maintained their independence from German Expressionism, yet they are now regarded as its supreme masters, who delved deeply into the art of past masters to develop unique individual styles.

  7. Their individualism left them both orphaned from the main movements of Twentieth Century modernism. Both wrote eloquently of the need to develop the art of "seeing" (Kokoschka emphasized depth perception while Beckmann was concerned with mystical insight into the invisible realm), and both were masters of innovative oil painting techniques anchored in earlier traditions.

  8. Thank you! Prepared bySimona Angelova

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