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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 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

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

Guests can visit the galleries featuring Viennese work by Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele and Oskar Kokoschka alongside decorative arts, and fine art from German movements like the Bauhaus and the Blaue Reiter.

From New York Times ● Dec. 3, 2015

No less important, Schorske overran the boundaries of specialist writing, pursuing the trajectories of figures from various disciplines: Freud, Otto Wagner, Schnitzler, Hofmannsthal, Klimt, Schoenberg, Kokoschka.

From The New Yorker ● Sep. 28, 2015

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