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Oskar Kokoschka

Expressionist, Migrant, Europäer. Eine Retrospektive


  • Kehrer
  • by Heike Eipeldauer & Cathérine Hug
Oskar Kokoschka (1886-1980) is, along with Francis Picabia and Pablo Picasso, one of a generation of artists who retained their allegiance to figurative painting after the Second World War, even as abstract art was consolidating its predominance. It is also thanks to them that non-representational painting and figurative art can now be practiced side by side without partisan feuding.

ISBN 9783868288988 | G | HB
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Publisher Kehrer
ISBN 9783868288988
Author(s) Heike Eipeldauer & Cathérine Hug
Publication date January 2019
Edition Hardback
Dimensions 270 x 220 mm
Illustrations 500 col.ill.
Pages 320
Language(s) German ed.
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Oskar Kokoschka (1886–1980) is, along with Francis Picabia and Pablo Picasso, one of a generation of artists who retained their allegiance to figurative painting after the Second World War, even as abstract art was consolidating its predominance. It is also thanks to them that non-representational painting and figurative art can now be practiced side by side without partisan feuding. Artists of the present day acknowledge their debt to Kokoschka in particular. The retrospective traces the motifs and motivations of a painter who felt at home in no fewer than five countries. It brings together 100 paintings and an equal number of works on paper, photographs and letters from all phases of his career. Two impressive triptychs – The Prometheus Triptych (1950, Courtauld Gallery, London) and Thermopylae (1954, University of Hamburg) – are the high point of Kokoschka’s mature oeuvre, and of this retrospective.