Oskar Kokoschka : expressionist, migrant, European : a retrospective / Cathérine Hug and Heike Eipeldauer ; with contributions by Régine Bonnefoit [and twelve others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hug, Catherine, 1976- organizer, writer of supplementary textual content.

Eipeldauer, Heike, organizer, writer of supplementary textual content.

Bonnefoit, Régine, writer of supplementary textual content.

Kunsthaus Zürich, host institution.

Leopold Museum, host institution.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kokoschka, Oskar, 1886-1980--Exhibitions.

Kokoschka, Oskar.

Kokoschka, Oskar, 1886-1980.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

Physical Description:

317 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), facsimiles, portraits ; 28 cm

Other Title:

Expressionist, migrant, European

Place of Publication:

Heidelberg : Kehrer ; [Zürich] : Kunsthaus Zürich ; Vienna : Leopold Museum, [2018]

Summary:

Oskar Kokoschka (1886-1980) is, along with Francis Picabia and Pablo Picasso, one of a generation of artists who retained their allegiance to figurative painting after the Second World War, even as abstract art was consolidating its predominance. It is also thanks to them that non-representational painting and figurative art can now be practised side by side without partisan feuding. Artists of the present day acknowledge their debt to Kokoschka in particular. The retrospective traces the motifs and motivations of a painter who felt at home in no fewer than five countries. It brings together 100 paintings and an equal number of works on paper, photographs and letters from all phases of his career. Two impressive triptychs, each around eight metres wide and two metres high - 'The Prometheus Triptych' (1950, Courtauld Gallery, London) and 'Thermopylae' (1954, University of Hamburg) - are the high point of Kokoschka's mature oeuvre, and of this retrospective. The two works have only been shown together once before, at the Tate in 1962. Exhibition: Kunsthaus, Zürich, Switzerland (14.12.2018 - 10.03.2019).

Contents:

Preface / Christoph Becker

Preface / Hans-Peter Wipplinger

Kokoschka revisited : his impact as a European and a painter of the figurative / Cathérine Hug

"I struggle for womanhood" : figurations of the female in the early work of Oskar Kokoschka / Heike Eipeldauer

Vienna circa 1909 : Kokoschka in the biotope of the avant-garde / Patrick Werkner

Alliance-misalliance : Sturm and Kokoschka and Dada / Raimund Meyer

The Dresden years : reception, working process and stylistic options / Birgit Dalbajewa

Kokoschka, homo Austriacus? : reflections on a difficult relationship / Bernadette Reinhold

Threatened paradise : art as an alternative : on the figurative works of the 1930s / Katharina Erling

Kokoschka's struggle for recognition in England and the USA after 1938 / Régine Bonnefoit

"A political man" : Oskar Kokoschka's criticism of the state and society / Heinz Spielmann

What we are fighting for : Oskar Kokoschka and Wilhelm Wartmann : a late friendship / Iris Bruderer-Oswald

Coloured stenographs : Oskar Kokoschka's sketchbooks / Aglaja Kempf

"Man, who are you?" : observations on Kokoschka's graphic prints / Alexandra Matzner

Chronology / Martina Ciardelli.

Notes:

Catalog of an exhibition held at Kunsthaus Zürich, December 14, 2018-March 10, 2019, and at the Leopold Museum, Vienna, April 6-July 8, 2019.

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Catalog of the exhibition "Oskar Kokoschka - Expressionist, Migrant, European. A Retrospective" held at the Kunsthaus, Zürich, December 14, 2018 - March 10, 2019; Leopold Museum, Vienna, April 6 - July 8, 2019.

Contains:

Kokoschka, Oskar, 1886-1980. Works. Selections.

ISBN:

9783868288995

3868288996

9783868289084

3868289089

OCLC:

1079857054