KOKOSCHKA, Oskar(1886 Pöchlarn – 1980 Montreux)

Flower Still Life

Color lithograph. Signed in ink and dated 1968 in the lower right corner.

Sheet size 61 x 47.5 cm. Framed & under glass : 71 x 57.5 cm.

Still life featuring, among other things, tulips and daffodils. From the Austrian artist’s late print series. Sheet slightly creased, frame chipped.

Son of a Czech goldsmith, trained in Vienna, professor in Dresden beginning in 1919; his work was denounced as “degenerate” during the Nazi era, exiled to London starting in 1938, where he was a member of resistance groups against the Nazi government in Germany; after World War II, he returned to Austria and later moved to Villeneuve near Montreux. Kokoschka is considered today one of the leading figures of Expressionism in Austria.

Bibliography: Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon.