Oskar Kokoschka
1886-1980
Austrian Expressionist Painter, Playwright, Poet
Stylistically influenced by the following painters and movements - Symbolism, Gustav Klimt, Edvard Munch, and Egon Schiele
Education - Kunstgewerbeschule, Vienna, Austria
In the late 1930s, the Nazis scorned his work as “degenerate art” and removed it from public museums and collections
Cause of Death - Old Age, died on February 22, 1980, in Montreux, Switzerland, he was 94
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Oskar Kokoschka Art Quotes
"Consciousness is the
grave of things, the
place where they cease
to exist, beyond which
they end. And when they
have ended, it seems
that they no longer have
any essential existence
except in the visions in
me." -- Oskar
Kokoschka
"That's why my work is
now more powerful and
less arbitrary, as if
seen by another person,
and illuminated from
outside." -- Oskar
Kokoschka
"The most fundamental in
me is coming uppermost,
and the transient, the
sensational, is
dispersing, because it
can't adversely
influence what is
essential to me."
-- Oskar Kokoschka
"However ugly a face may
be, we can discover some
beauty in it if we first
experience wonder before
it and then begin to
understand it, too."
-- Oskar Kokoschka
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James Ensor
Lyonel Feininger
George Grosz
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Wassily
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Ernst Ludwig
Kirchner
Paul Klee
Oskar Kokoschka
Auguste Macke
Franz Marc
Amedeo
Modigliani
Edvard Munch
Emil Nolde
Georges Rouault
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