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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 4to (28 cm), 256 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. From the blurb: "Oskar Kokoschka (1886-1980) is one of Austria's finest Expressionist artists. His paintings are renowned and admired for their vivid colour and restless energy. This book focuses on the early portraits that Kokoschka painted in Vienna and Berlin on the eve of World War I. Perhaps the best known and most highly esteemed of all his works, these portraits are examples of Kokoschka's use of ecaggeration and distortion of colour to convey deep emotioni and psychological tension. they also present a look at many of the important intellectual figures of the era, for their subjects include Peter Altenbery, Adolf Loos, Alma Mahler and Kokoschka himself (in his "Self Portrait as Knight Errant"). This illustrated book includes not only these oil portraits but also some of Kokoschka's drawings of the same sitters and a selection of the postcards, fans and posters he made for the Wiener Werkstatte in the period before the portraits were completed, all of which shed light on his early development. There are also discussions on the culture and history of Vienna and Berlin in the pre-war period; Kokoschka's shift from Art Nouveau to Expressionism; his place within the German and Austrian Expressionist movements; his reception in the United States; and more. This book is the catalogue for a major exhibition that opens at the Neue galerie, New York on 15th March 2002 and runs until 10th June.". Seller Inventory # 004335
Book Description Couverture rigide. Condition: Neuf. Dust Jacket Condition: Neuf. At the age of twenty-two, Oskar Kokoschka (1886-1980) became famous overnight for his appearance in the seminal Vienna Kunstschau of 1908. Gustav Klimt, then president of the Vienna Secession, described Kokoschka as "the outstanding talent among the younger generation". Critics were more divided ; one, referring to the artist's agitated Expressionist style, called Kokoschka the "Oberwilding [super savage] of Vienna". Oskar Kokoschka : Early Portraits from Vienna and Berlin, 1909-1914 focuses on Kokoschka and his early portraiture, perhaps the best-known and most esteemed part of the artist's wide-ranging oeuvre. By showing more than thirty oil portraits painted in Vienna and Berlin on the eve of World War I, the exhibition and its accompanying catalogue survey Kokoschka's art of this period and the intellectual milieu in which the artist worked. Among the key works are portraits of Peter Altenberg, Adolf Loos, and Alma Mahler, and the Self-Portrait as Knight Errant. The point of departure is the seven early portraits in the collections of Neue Galerie New York and its founders. In addition to the oil portraits, the exhibition and catalogue include a rare selection of the artist's drawings, many featuring the same sitters he portrayed in oil. Examples of Kokoschka's work for the Wiener Werkstätte (postcards, posters, fans) demonstrate the artist's swift passage from Jugendstil to Expressionism, and from illustrator to artist. Of particular note are fans made for Alma Mahler, with whom Kokoschka had a legendary love affair. A special section is devoted to the architect Adolf Loos, who had a guiding role in the artistic development of the young Kokoschka. The guest curator of the exhibition is Dr. Tobias Natter, Keeper of the Twentieth-Century Collection of the Osterreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna. The exhibition opens at the Neue Galerie New York, then travels to the Hamburger Kunsthalle, Germany.------------------------. Seller Inventory # ABE-1652116766875
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