Oskar Kokoschka , born on March 1st 1886 with Pöchlarn in Austria and deceased the February 22nd 1980 with Swiss Villeneuve in , was a writer and painter Austrian expressionnist.

Biography

From 1903 to 1909, Kokoschka follows the courses of the Kunstgewerbeschule of Vienna (it presents the entrance examination at the same time as Adolf Hitler and, unlike the future dictator, makes a success of it). One of its professors is Gustav Klimt and one of its school-fellows Elsa Oeltjen-Kasimir. Kokoschka rejects the Jugendstil quickly, which has consequences on its work. For this reason it is established in 1910 with Berlin. It returns to Vienna only in 1911.

Starting from 1912, Kokoschka lives with Alma Mahler-Werfel. This impassioned love and its epistolary exchanges inspired various works of Article to him Its painting, at that time, evolves/moves quickly: it starts to work with broader brushes and applies colors more and more. In 1914, it joint with the painters of the Secession Viennese in Berlin. In 1915, mobilized for the combat of the First World War, it is seriously wounded. In 1917, it settled in Dresden, where it meets Adolf Loos architect and friendly Viennese. Of 1919 with 1924, one entrusts to him a pulpit at the school of Arts of Dresden. Not wishing to be overflowed by the academy, the painter undertakes voyages. He returns to Vienna in 1933. After the death of his mother, it is exiled in 1934 in Prague (for political reasons) where it meets that which will become his wife, Olga Palkovska. After Prague where it remains as far as 1938 and London (1938-53), it is definitively established in Switzerland in 1953, in Villeneuve at the end of the Lake Léman where he passes the twenty-seven last years of his life. The Kokoschka Foundation is based with the museum Jenisch de Vevey (Swiss).

Oskar Kokoschka is recipient of the Documenta I (1955), Documenta II (1959) and Documenta III in 1964 with Kassel.

It inspires by the generations of painters, among whom Alkis Pierrakos, that it on several occasions meets in London in 1950.

Paintings (selection)

• 1910 : Bildnis Herwarth Walden (Portrait of Herwarth Walden), Staatsgalerie Stuttgart
• 1913: Die Windsbraut ( Been engaged of the wind ), museum of art of Basle
• 1918: Selbstbildnis (self-portrait)
• 1918: Die Macht der Musik ( Capacity of the music ) in Stedelijk van Abbermuseum of Eindhoven
• 1922: Dresden-Neustadt ( new City of Dresden ), with the Kunsthalle of Hamburg
• 1931: Side: Trudl put Ziege , with the Sprengel-Museum of Hanover
• 1934: Prag: Karlsbrücke ( Prague: the bridge Charles ), with the national Gallery of Prague
• 1950: Bildnis Prof Dr. Theodor Heuss ( Portrait of professor Theodore Heuss ), with the museum of the town of Cologne, Museum Ludwig
• 1950: Prometheus Triptych ( Prométhée ), in Samuel Courtauld Trust of London; Courtald Institute off Art Gallery, London
• 1951: Der Hafen von Hamburg ( the Wearing of Hamburg ), with the museum of modern art of New York
• 1952: Geschwister Feilchenfeldt ( the Children Feilchenfeldt ), particular collection (Walter and Konrad Feilchenfeldt)
• 1954: Thermopylae ( Thermopyles ), Triptych, at the university of Hamburg
• 1955: Bühnenbilder und Kostüme für Die Zauberflöte (Decorations and costumes for the Magic Flute of Mozart, at the time of the Festival of Salzburg
• 1956: Ansicht der Stadt Köln vom Messeturm aus ( Seen town of Cologne since the building of the fair ) with the Ludwig museum of Cologne
• 1966: Porträt Konrad Adenauer (portrait of Konrad Adenauer)

Writings

Kokoschka wrote tests and articles, of which an autobiography: Mein Leben , in 1971. Its correspondences were published in 1984. Its parts were really redécouvertes in the years 1990:

• 1911 : DER brennende Dornbusch ( the Burning bush )

• 1919: Orphée and Eurydice
• 1916: Murder, Hope of the Woman
• 1917: Hiob

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