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Oskar Kokoschka*
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230
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Oskar Kokoschka*
See original version (German)
Estimate €150 - €250
Voluntary lot
Description
Oskar Kokoschka*
(Pöchlarn 1886 – 1980 Montreux)
Frogs
etching on paper, 26.2 x 20 cm
signed O Kokoschka, numbered XLIII/LXX
ESTIMATE €150 – €250
STARTING PRICE €150
Portrait, genre, landscape and still-life painter, as well as a graphic artist. Born on 1 March 1886 in Pöchlarn. Based in Villeneuve, Switzerland. He trained at the Vienna School of Applied Arts and, during this time, worked for the Wiener Werkstätte. In 1910, he worked for the Berlin magazine *Der Sturm* and signed an employment contract with the Paul Cassirer Gallery. In 1911, he returned to Vienna and played a key role in the Hagenbund exhibition. During the 1912–13 academic year, he was an assistant at the Vienna School of Applied Arts. At the outbreak of the war, he volunteered for military service and was seriously wounded in Galicia on 29 August 1915. During his convalescence, he led a group of war painters and journalists in Vienna in 1916. At the same time, he joined the circle around Käthe Richter (including Walter Hasenclever, Iwar von Brücken and others). From 1919 to 1924, he was a professor at the Dresden Academy. He then undertook extensive travels, which were subsequently reflected in large-scale cityscapes and landscape paintings. In 1933, he gave up his flat in Paris and returned to Vienna. In 1934, due to political developments in Germany, he moved to Prague, where, between 1924 and 1938, he produced 16 views of the city of Prague and a portrait of President Thomas G. Masaryk. His first major exhibition took place in Vienna in 1937. In the same year, 417 of his works were confiscated in Germany as ‘degenerate art’. It was against this backdrop that the ‘Self-Portrait of a Degenerate Artist’ was created. In 1938, he emigrated to London with his wife, Olga Palkovska. In 1947 he became a British citizen and made London his permanent home. His first major post-war exhibition took place at the Kunsthalle Basel. In 1951 he was awarded honorary citizenship of his birthplace, Pöchlarn, and in 1964 he was awarded honorary citizenship of the city of Vienna. In 1953, he first took charge of the main course of the ‘School of Seeing’, which he had co-founded, at the International Summer Academy for Fine Arts in Salzburg, which he directed until 1962. In the summer of 1953, he moved from London to Villeneuve on Lake Geneva. In 1956, on his 70th birthday, he received numerous international honours, and Federal President Dr Heuss awarded him the ‘Pour le mérite’ order. The catalogue raisonné of his paintings, edited by H. M. Wingler, was published in Salzburg. In 1958, a major retrospective was held in Munich, Vienna and The Hague. With 682 works, the exhibition at the Vienna Künstlerhaus was the most comprehensive Kokoschka exhibition ever staged. In 1966, numerous honours and exhibitions were held to mark his 80th birthday, for example in Salzburg, Zurich, Stuttgart, New York and Karlsruhe. In 1971, he travelled to Tunisia and wrote his autobiography *My Life*. To mark his 85th birthday, exhibitions were held in Rome, Heidelberg, Salzburg, Prague, Munich, London and at the Belvedere in Vienna. In 1976, in honour of his 90th birthday, numerous exhibitions of his work took place around the world. Other artists and movements: Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, Max Beckmann, Bohuslav Kokoschka, Alma Mahler, Wiener Werkstätte, Sturm Circle, Blue Rider, Sonderbund, Villeneuve Studio, Austrian Ring of Honour, Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, Max Beckmann, Bohuslav Kokoschka, Alma Mahler, Wiener Werkstätte, Sturm Circle, Blue Rider, Sonderbund, Villeneuve Studio, Austrian Ring of Honour, Richard Gerstl, Koloman Moser, Viennese Modernism, Vienna Secession, Vienna School of Applied Arts, Max Liebermann, Lovis Corinth, Berlin Secession, Portrait, Karl Kraus, Herwarth Walden, Sturm, Avant-garde, Paul Cassirer
PLEASE NOTE:
The purchase price comprises the highest bid plus the buyer’s premium, VAT and, where applicable, the artists’ resale rights fee and platform fee. In the case of standard taxation (marked °), a premium of 24% is added to the highest bid. The statutory sales tax of 13% (20% for photographs) is added to the sum of the highest bid, the buyer’s premium and the platform fee.
The buyer’s premium amounts to 28% in the case of differential taxation. The sales tax is included in the differential taxation.
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