New exhibition of Oskar Kokoschka at the Leopold Museum. Oskar Kokoschka is considered one of the most important artists of the 20th century. He was able to transcend the prevailing Jugendstil of his time and went on to become a central pioneer of Expressionism.

Oskar Kokoschka&nbsp;(1886&ndash;1980) is considered one of the most important artists of the 20th century. He was able to transcend the prevailing Jugendstil of his time and went on to become a central pioneer of Expressionism. From 1908, he appeared as a&nbsp;painter, graphic artist, poetand&nbsp;playwright,&nbsp;provoking the art world as an&nbsp;enfant terrible&nbsp;and&nbsp;radical innovator.&nbsp;Even later, after Europe had been shaken by two world wars and realistic art had fallen into disrepute, Kokoschka boldly campaigned for the recognition of figurative art, which turned him into a role model for the generations of artists to come. The political turmoil of the past century forced the artist to become a&nbsp;migrant&nbsp;living in Vienna, Dresden, Prague and London, before he finally settled in 1953 in the Swiss town of Villeneuve.

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The&nbsp;retrospective,&nbsp;comprising some 250 exhibits, takes into account all the periods of Kokoschka&rsquo;s oeuvre with high-quality loans from international museums and private collections, featuring not only the versatile artist&rsquo;s paintings, drawings, watercolors and prints but also his works for art magazines like &ldquo;Der Sturm&rdquo; and the theater. By means of political allegories, incendiary posters and historical documents, Kokoschka is shown as a&nbsp;significant&nbsp;and&nbsp;ratherambivalent &ldquo;homo politicus&rdquo;.&nbsp;Defamed by the National Socialist regime as a&nbsp;&ldquo;degenerate artist,&rdquo;he dedicated his life to humanism and pacifism.

The exhibition is created in&nbsp;cooperation&nbsp;with the&nbsp;Kunsthaus Z&uuml;rich.

Oskar Kokoschka, Alma Mahler and Oskar Kokoschka, 1913 © Leopold Museum, Vienna, Inv. 4667

Oskar Kokoschka, Adolf Loos, 1909 © Leopold Museum, Wien | Vienna

OSKAR KOKOSCHKA, Druck: Albert Berger, Pietà. Plakat für sein Drama Mörder, Hoffnung der Frauen in der Internationalen Kunstschau, 1909 © Leopold Museum, Wien Foto: Leopold Museum, Wien/Manfred Thumberger © Fondation Oskar Kokoschka/Bildrecht Wien, 2019

OSKAR KOKOSCHKA, Prometheus Triptychon (Hades und Persephone, Apokalypse, Prometheus), 1950 © The Courtauld Gallery, London Foto: The Samuel Courtauld Trust, The Courtauld Gallery, London © Fondation Oskar Kokoschka/Bildrecht Wien, 2019

OSKAR KOKOSCHKA, Das rote Ei, 1940/41 © National Gallery in Prague Foto: 2019 National Gallery Prague © Fondation Oskar Kokoschka/Bildrecht Wien, 2019

The exhibition will be held at the Leopold Museum till the 8th of July 2019.&nbsp; 
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Oskar Kokoschka: expressionist, migrant, european

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