Kokoschka

American  

[koh-kawsh-kah] / koʊˈkɔʃ kɑ /

noun

1. Oskar 1886–1980, Austrian painter and dramatist.

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Kokoschka British  

/ koˈkɔʃka, ˈkɔkɔʃka /

noun

1. Oskar (ˈɔskar). 1886–1980, Austrian expressionist painter and dramatist, noted for his landscapes and portraits

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Example Sentences

The gift also includes paintings, drawings, prints and posters from Alfred Kubin, Oskar Kokoschka and Marie-Louise von Motesiczky, as well as German artists Lovis Corinth and Käthe Kollwitz.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 8, 2025

The 150 works, which also include pieces by Max Ernst, Paul Klee, Oskar Kokoschka, and Marc Chagall, hail from the Vatican Museums’ contemporary arts collection.

From Reuters • Dec. 16, 2019

After Gustav Mahler’s death, a year later, Gropius found himself in a romantic triangle with the intense and frightening painter Oskar Kokoschka.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 22, 2019

His self-portrait was lent to the 1938 exhibition by Emil Korner, an economics professor with whom Kokoschka had sought refuge in Czechoslovakia, before Korner himself was forced to emigrate to Zurich.

From The Guardian • Oct. 5, 2018

At the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield, Mich., where he earned a master’s degree in fine art in 1952, he fancied himself an Expressionist in the vein of Oskar Kokoschka.

From New York Times • Oct. 19, 2015