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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

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

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

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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