Sheep and Lambs
Oskar Kokoschka (Pöchlarn 1886 - Montreux 1980)
Lot-No. 206
Coloured pencil drawing, 14 x 22,5 cm, lo. le. dedicated and monogr. 'Many happy returns from OK', framed under glass, uninspected out of frame. - Austrian painter, graphic artist and poet of expressionism. K. studied at the Vienna art school among others under G. Klimt but rejected the Art Nouveau style and developed a subjective emotional pictorial language. He was member of the Berlin Freie Sezession. Among his most important exhibitions was the participation in the Documenta I to III. Mus.: Basel, Stuttgart, Hamburg (Kunsthalle), Hannover (Sprengel Museum), New York (MoMA), Prague, Cologne a. others Lit.: Thieme-Becker, Vollmer, Spielmann 'O.K. - Leben u. Werk', Wingler/Welz 'K. - Das druckgraph. Werk' a. others.
Oskar Kokoschka: Sheep and Lambs
Oskar Kokoschka (Pöchlarn 1886 - Montreux 1980)
Sheep and Lambs
Lot-No. 206
Coloured pencil drawing, 14 x 22,5 cm, lo. le. dedicated and monogr. 'Many happy returns from OK', framed under glass, uninspected out of frame. - Austrian painter, graphic artist and poet of expressionism. K. studied at the Vienna art school among others under G. Klimt but rejected the Art Nouveau style and developed a subjective emotional pictorial language. He was member of the Berlin Freie Sezession. Among his most important exhibitions was the participation in the Documenta I to III. Mus.: Basel, Stuttgart, Hamburg (Kunsthalle), Hannover (Sprengel Museum), New York (MoMA), Prague, Cologne a. others Lit.: Thieme-Becker, Vollmer, Spielmann 'O.K. - Leben u. Werk', Wingler/Welz 'K. - Das druckgraph. Werk' a. others.
