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Oskar Kokoschka

Austrian painter and writer
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Kokoschka, Oskar
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Category: Arts & Culture
Born:
March 1, 1886, Pöchlarn, Austria
Died:
February 22, 1980, Villeneuve, Switzerland (aged 93)
Notable Works:
“Dents du Midi”
“Dresden Manifesto”
“Herodotus”
“Mörder, Hoffnung der Frauen”
“Orpheus und Eurydike”
“The Tempest”
Movement / Style:
Expressionism
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Oskar Kokoschka (born March 1, 1886, Pöchlarn, Austria—died February 22, 1980, Villeneuve, Switzerland) was an Austrian painter and writer who was one of the leading exponents of Expressionism. In his early portraits, gesture intensifies the psychological penetration of character; especially powerful among his later works are allegories of the artist’s emphatic humanism. His dramas, poems, and prose are significant for their psychological insight and stylistic daring. When Kokoschka was three years old, his father went bankrupt in a financial crash. The family was forced to move to Vienna, where his father worked as a traveling salesman and his mother cared ...(100 of 1897 words)

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