Kokoschka

The Austrian artist Oskar Kokoschka (1886-1980) achieved global fame with his intense expressionistic portraits and landscapes. He traces Kokoschka's path from b te noire of the bourgeoisie and "hunger artist" who had to flee the Nazis to a wealthy and cosmopolitan political and critical artist who played a significant role in shaping the European art scene of the twentieth century and whose relevance is undiminished to this day.In Kokoschka: A Life in Art, G rner emphasizes the artist's versatility. In this first English-language biography, R diger G rner depicts the artist in all his fascinating and contradictory complexity.

Music, too, played a central Kokoschka, although best known for his expressionistic portraits and landscapes, was more than a mere visual artist: his achievements as a playwright, essayist, and poet bear witness to a remarkable literary talent.