Publications by tag: oskar kokoschka

2018 is the year of the Leopold Museum within frames of celebrating the anniversary year of Viennese Modernism and its protagonists Klimt, Schiele, Wagner and Moser. The Leopold Museum reconstructs the extraordinary cultural epoch from Modernism beginnings with Anton Romako to the Schiele jubilee exhibition, via Klimt, Moser, Gerstl, and Kokoschka. Read about the most interesting exhibitions at…

In 2018, the Kunsthaus Zürich will conduct a large retrospective of the Oskar Kokoschka’s oeuvre, spanning all major career phases of the leading Expressionist artist of the 20th century.

Passions often run high in the world of art. Many artists are temperamental and emotional, and various fans and critics closely watch their every move, almost leaving them no privacy. Sexual relationships are subject of heated discussions, any model turns into a mistress in the eyes of laymen, and even an ordinary portrait can become a reason for scandal.

You can hardly tell the exact day or year of the birth of Expressionism, which is usual for all powerful art movements. You cannot draw a border on the map and indicate the territory where Expressionism took its start and got stronger. Overall, it’s all roughly known. Except for one rock-solid spatiotemporal benchmark: Northern Europe on the eve of the First World War. Expressionism is an avant…

Why does ugliness attract as much as beauty? Perhaps, because caterpillars give butterflies, and manure produces juicy fruits. In life, one complements the other. Ugliness often makes people think and feel, which is the main role of art. It does not adorn, it summarizes and awakens. Who scared us all these years? We announce the list.