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The artist Oskar Kokoschka reworked ancient myths to express his fears for humanity. Daisy Dunn explores the meaning of the remarkable Prometheus Triptych – and how it resonates today.
The early portraits of the Austrian painter Oskar Kokoschka (1886-1980), which are currently the subject of a mesmerizing exhibition at The early portraits of the Austrian painter Oskar Kokoschka ...
NEW ORLEANS (CN) - For the second time this week, Dr. Claudia Seger-Thomschitz has been sued by someone who seeks to quiet title to an Oskar Kokoschka painting, insisting it was not acquired by ...
A German government panel said a museum in Cologne should return a portrait by Oskar Kokoschka valued at 3 million euros ($3.9 million) to the heirs of Alfred Flechtheim, a Jewish art dealer ...
Sweden’s Moderna Museet returned a painting by Oskar Kokoschka to the heirs of Alfred Flechtheim, who was one of the best-known dealers in Europe before he fled Nazi Germany in 1933 following a ...
multi-talented Oskar Kokoschka bestrode the city’s avant-garde painting scene. Hitler hated everything Kokoschka and his advanced friends stood for – violent expressionism, progressive interna ...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden — Sweden’s modern museum on Tuesday said it had returned a Nazi-confiscated painting by Austrian artist Oskar Kokoschka to the heir of a persecuted Jewish art collector.
Oskar Kokoschka was not only a beautiful-sounding name, but a household name, at least until the mid-20th Century. Born in Pöchlarn, near Vienna, in 1886, he achieved fame as an Expressionist ...