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Kokoschka

[ koh-kawsh-kah ]

noun

  1. Os·kar [aws, -kah, r], 1886–1980, Austrian painter and dramatist.


Kokoschka

/ koˈkɔʃka; ˈkɔkɔʃka /

noun

  1. KokoschkaOskar18861980MAustrianARTS AND CRAFTS: painterTHEATRE: dramatist Oskar (ˈɔskar). 1886–1980, Austrian expressionist painter and dramatist, noted for his landscapes and portraits
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Example Sentences

But one European museum that had been lined up to send an Oskar Kokoschka painting for an upcoming retrospective was insisting on tighter climate controls.

More than anything, though, the composition and its palette seem indebted to a painter like Viennese Expressionist Oskar Kokoschka, whose famous allegorical self-portrait with his lover, Alma Mahler, finished in 1914, shows them locked together and floating anxiously in a turbulent swirl.

The content may be local, but the inspiration is German, as she translates the style of such expressionists as Ludwig Kirchner, Käthe Kollwitz and Oskar Kokoschka into a myth of her own life.

At the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, the director Rein Wolfs has been walking through the collection galleries with a single cameraphone, riffing on paintings by Kokoschka or Newman as if he were talking to a friend.

In return, it will keep works on paper estimated to be worth more than $2 million by artists including Henri Matisse, Max Beckmann, Auguste Rodin, Marc Chagall, Oskar Kokoschka, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and Erich Heckel.

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