Essay on Oskar Kokoschka

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Oskar Kokoschka

Oskar Kokoschka
Kokoschka was born in P^chlarn, a Danube town, on March 1, 1886. He
studied at the Vienna School of Arts and Crafts from 1905 to 1908. As
an early exponent of the avant-garde expressionist movement, he began
to paint psychologically penetrating portraits of Viennese physicians,
architects, and artists. Among these works are Hans Tietze and Erica
Tietze-Conrat (1909, Museum of Modern Art, New York City), August Forel
(1910, Mannheim Art Gallery, Germany), and Self-Portrait (1913, Museum
of Modern Art). Kokoschka was wounded in World War I (1914-1918) and
diagnosed as psychologically unstable. He taught art at the Dresden
Academy from 1919 to 1924. During this time he painted The Power of
Music (1919, Dresden Paintings Collection, Dresden). A succeeding
seven-year period of travel in Europe and the Middle East resulted in a
number of robust, brilliantly colored landscapes and figure pieces,
painted with great freedom and exuberance. Many of them are views of
harbors, mountains, and cities. Kokoschka, one of the artists
denounced by the Nazi government of Germany as degenerate, moved in
1938 to England, where he painted antiwar pictures during World War II
(1939-1945) and became a British subject in 1947. After the war he
visited the United States and settled in Switzerland. He died in
Montreux on February 22, 1980. Best known as a painter, Kokoschka was
also a writer. His literary works include poetry and plays not
translated into English and a

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