Research Catalog

Title

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

Publication

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

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Details

Additional Authors

• Hug, Catherine, 1976-
• Eipeldauer, Heike
• Bonnefoit, Régine
• Kokoschka, Oskar, 1886-1980.
• Kunsthaus Zürich, host institution
• Leopold Museum, host institution

Description

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

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).

Alternative Title

Expressionist, migrant, European

Subjects

• Kokoschka, Oskar, 1886-1980 > Exhibitions
• Exhibition catalogs

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs.

Note

• 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.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

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.

Call Number

JQF 19-679

ISBN

• 9783868288995
• 3868288996
• 9783868289084
• 3868289089

LCCN

2018426873

OCLC

1079857054

Title

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

Publisher

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

Copyright Date

©2018

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Added Author

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

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

Bonnefoit, Régine, writer of supplementary textual content.

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

Kunsthaus Zürich, host institution.

Leopold Museum, host institution.

Research Call Number

JQF 19-679