Action Painter
Oskar Kokoschka (Pöchlarn 1886 - Montreux 1980), in collaboration with Rolf Christiansen
Lot-No. 304
1971. Red chalk over lithograph. 63,5 x 49 cm. Unframed. Lo. ri. autographed and dat. OK Salzburg 71 and Ch. - Literature: Cat. rais. for the lithograph: Winger/Welz 212 - Provenance: Collection of Rolf Christiansen; thence by descent. - 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. - Rolf Christiansen (Hamburg 1914 -Bern 1990) was a stager designer who worked at many German theaters but also in Salzburg and Bern. Mus.: Basel, Stuttgart, Hamburg (Kunsthalle), Hannover (Sprengel Museum), New York (MoMA), Prague, Cologne a. others Lit.: Thieme-Becker, Vollmer, Spielmann: O.K. - Leben und Werk, Wingler/Welz: K. - Das druckgraph. Werk a. others.
Oskar Kokoschka, in Zusammenarbeit mit Rolf Christiansen: Action Painter
Oskar Kokoschka (Pöchlarn 1886 - Montreux 1980), in collaboration with Rolf Christiansen
Action Painter
Lot-No. 304
1971. Red chalk over lithograph. 63,5 x 49 cm. Unframed. Lo. ri. autographed and dat. OK Salzburg 71 and Ch. - Literature: Cat. rais. for the lithograph: Winger/Welz 212 - Provenance: Collection of Rolf Christiansen; thence by descent. - 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. - Rolf Christiansen (Hamburg 1914 -Bern 1990) was a stager designer who worked at many German theaters but also in Salzburg and Bern. Mus.: Basel, Stuttgart, Hamburg (Kunsthalle), Hannover (Sprengel Museum), New York (MoMA), Prague, Cologne a. others Lit.: Thieme-Becker, Vollmer, Spielmann: O.K. - Leben und Werk, Wingler/Welz: K. - Das druckgraph. Werk a. others.
