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.

Oskar Kokoschka was an Austrian Impressionist & Modern artist who was born in 1886. His work is currently being shown at multiple venues like Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Altstadt ...

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 ...

The 53rd International Film Festival of India will open with Austrian film 'Alma & Oskar,' directed by Dieter Berner. ... (1879-1964) and Austrian artist Oskar Kokoschka (1886-1980).

My favorite shelf in the home library is where Raymond Roussel, the Comte de Lautréamont, E.T. A. Hoffmann, Leonora Carrington and other writers form a brilliant phalanx of eccentricity and ...

Alma Mahler, the Grande Dame of Viennese society and recently widowed, begins a turbulent relationship with Oskar Kokoschka, the Enfant Terrible of Vienna's art scene, in the spring of 1912.

Social historian Travis Elborough has chosen 31 journeys taken by prominent artists – and considered how they have shaped ...