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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

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

Here is a letter from Pablo Picasso, Hugh Walpole’s diary and a letter from Wyndam Lewis; photographs of E. E. Cummings and Gertrude Stein; a portrait by Oscar Kokoschka.

From New York Times Jun. 19, 2014

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