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

But one European museum that had been lined up to send an Oskar Kokoschka painting for an upcoming retrospective was insisting on tighter climate controls.

From New York Times • Feb. 1, 2023

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

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