Oskar Kokoschka, Alligator snapping turtles (Riesenschildkröten), 1927 Oil on canvas. 90,4 x 118,1 cm Kunstmuseum Den Haag, ... the forbears of German Expressionism like Käthe Kollwitz, and other ...

Kokoschka explains, "I will teach them to see again; this is the faculty lost to modern society." Expressionism is know for its despair, sometimes impressively tragic, at other times excessively ...

Although the Austrian-born painter Oskar Kokoschka(1886-1980) spent much of his very long life as a tireless traveler and expatriate, his work will forever be associated with the Viennese avant-gar… ...

To better emphasize Gerstl’s style, this gallery also features the portrait of Rudolf Blümner by Oskar Kokoschka (1910), Blümner’s hands and his face distorted, and “Black-feathered Hat ...

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Expressionism's rocky path from shunned to celebrated art An exhibition at the Folkwang Museum in Germany's Essen visits the early 20th century art movement's path to acceptance. Around 50 artists had ...

IN 1917, AS NEW YORK-BASED artists were launching a movement of abstract art to distract from the trauma of World War I, German and Austrian artists, including Oskar Kokoschka, George Grosz and ...