Self Portrait
Oskar Kokoschka (Pöchlarn 1886 - Montreux 1980)
Lot-No. 178
1975, lithograph/japanese paper, 67,5 x 51,5 cm, lo. ri. autographed O. kokoschka, lo. le. num. IX/LXXX. - Printed for the 50 year jubilee of the BAT cigarette company. Includes colophon a. original portfolio. - Austrian painter, graphic artist a. poet of expressionism. K. studied at the Vienna art school among others under G. Klimt but rejected the Art Nouveau style a. 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: Self Portrait
Oskar Kokoschka (Pöchlarn 1886 - Montreux 1980)
Self Portrait
Lot-No. 178
1975, lithograph/japanese paper, 67,5 x 51,5 cm, lo. ri. autographed O. kokoschka, lo. le. num. IX/LXXX. - Printed for the 50 year jubilee of the BAT cigarette company. Includes colophon a. original portfolio. - Austrian painter, graphic artist a. poet of expressionism. K. studied at the Vienna art school among others under G. Klimt but rejected the Art Nouveau style a. 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.