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Affiche Polychrome - Oscar Kokoschka - Exposition Au Kunsthaus - Circa 1986
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Large polychrome poster for the Oskar Kokoschka exhibition at the Kunsthaus Zürich from 5 September to 9 November 1986.
Very fine colour print pasted on panel.
Period : XXth century
Circa : 1986
Dimensions : Height : 128cm x Width : 90cm x Depth : 2,5cm
Oskar Kokoschka (1886-1980) was one of the leading Austrian painters and ambassadors of Viennese Expressionism and Modernism.
He was what we would today call a jack-of-all-trades. He wrote plays and stories, and created theatre sets and mosaics for churches. But he was above all a painter, and owes his fame to his portraits.
Kokoschka was above all interested in faces. Almost half of his works are busts. The artist's aim was not so much to faithfully transcribe the model's physical appearance, but the character traits hidden behind his face and personality.
The subjects Kokoschka portrayed reveal their optimism, but also their uncertainties and inner turmoil, and sometimes also their grief and pain.
Kokoschka's style has often been described as painting the soul. Oskar Kokoschka's obsession has always been to capture the whole person on canvas, not just their physical appearance.
He painted Adolf Loos and Karl Kraus, Golda Meir, Ezra Pound, Theodor Heuss and Ludwig Ehrhardt.
In 1966, he was invited to paint the portrait of German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer. Adenauer. This painting - one of his most famous - occupied Angela Merkel's office for 16 years, until recently. As close as possible to the current events of his time: the committed artist Oskar Kokoschka would probably have appreciated this privilege.
- Creator:Oskar Kokoschka (Artist)
- Dimensions:Height: 50.4 in (128 cm)Width: 35.44 in (90 cm)Depth: 0.79 in (2 cm)
- Style:Other (Of the Period)
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- Date of Manufacture:XXth
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- Seller Location:CRÉTEIL, FR
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU7814236532692
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. He was second child to Gustav Josef Kokoschka, a Czech goldsmith, and Maria Romana Kokoschka (née Loidl). His older brother died in infancy in 1887; he had a sister, Berta (born in 1889) and a brother, Bohuslav (born in 1892). Oskar had a strong belief in omens, spurred by a story of a fire breaking out in Pöchlarn shortly after his mother gave birth to him. Kokoschka’s life was not easy mainly due to a lack of financial help from his father. They constantly moved into smaller flats, farther and farther from the thriving center of the town. Concluding that his father was inadequate, Kokoschka drew closer to his mother. Among Kokoschka’s early works were gesture drawings of children, which portrayed them as awkward and corpse-like. Kokoschka had no formal training in painting and so approached the medium without regard to the “traditional” or “correct” way to paint. The teachers at Kunstgewerbeschule helped Kokoschka gain opportunities through the Wiener Werkstätte or Viennese Workshops. Kokoschka’s first commissions were postcards and drawings for children. Kokoschka said that it gave him “the basis of [his] artistic training”.[1] His early career was marked by portraits of Viennese celebrities, painted in a nervously animated style. He volunteered for service as a cavalryman in the Austrian army in World War I, and in 1915 was seriously 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.
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