As late as a decade ago, one still could find Oskar Kokoschka listed in the London telephone directory. This was a little odd, since the world-famous artist who once was the bad boy of Imperial ...

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 ...

Oskar Kokoschka, “Giant Tortoises (Alligator snapping turtles)” (1927), oil on canvas; The Hague, the Netherlands. The sitter did not like it.

Oskar Kokoschka: Early Portraits from Vienna and Berlin, 1909-1914 remains on view at the Neue Galerie New York, 1048 Fifth Avenue at 86th Street, through June 10.

Warped and grooved, the italic initials ‘OK’ sit uncomfortably in the corner of every painting by Oskar Kokoschka. Like a scar, his signature is scratched deep into the surface of his works – his ...

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Oskar Kokoschka, ‘Matterhorn II,’ 1947. Photo: Fondation Oskar Kokoschka/ProLitteris, Zurich The final feverish years of the Austro-Hungarian Empire produced three great artists.

Although the Austrian-born painter Oskar Kokoschka(1886-1980) spent much of his very long life as a tireless traveler and expatriate, his work will forever be associated with the Viennese avant ...