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Kokoschka

American  
[koh-kawsh-kah] / koʊˈkɔʃ kɑ /

noun

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


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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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 content may be local, but the inspiration is German, as she translates the style of such expressionists as Ludwig Kirchner, Käthe Kollwitz and Oskar Kokoschka into a myth of her own life.

From The Guardian Nov. 23, 2020

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

Early modernism, unveiled in the blunt façades of Wagner and Loos, the corpselike faces of Kokoschka and Schiele, and the eternally disorienting atonality of Schoenberg, goes a step further, rejecting society en masse.

From The New Yorker Sep. 28, 2015

One of Europe's biggest modern art collections includes works by major Austrian artists such as Oskar Kokoschka and Hermann Nitsch and international names including Gerhard Richter, Sam Francis and Anish Kapoor.

From Reuters Sep. 2, 2014

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