Kokoschka

The Untimely Modernist
Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-1-912208-81-4
Verlag: Haus Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 320 Seiten, Format (B × H): 237 mm x 161 mm, Gewicht: 618 g

The Austrian artist Oskar Kokoschka (1886–1980) achieved world fame with his intense expressionistic portraits and landscapes. In this detailed biography, Rüdiger Görner masterfully depicts the multifaceted artist’s life and long career. He traces Kokoschka’s path from being the bugbear of the bourgeoisie and a ‘hunger artist’ to becoming a wealthy and cosmopolitan political and critical artist who went on to shape the European art scene of the 20th century and beyond. The great painter’s works as a playwright, essayist and poet bear witness to his remarkable literary quality. Music played a central role in his work, and his passion for teaching led him to establish in 1953 the School of Seeing, an unconventional art school conceived by Kokoschka as an attempt to revive humanist ideals in the horrific aftermath of war. The life and work of Oskar Kokoschka are a reaction against the monochrome monotony of existence; Görner’s biography portrays the artist in all his fascinating and contradictory complexity.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Goerner, Rudiger

Görner, Rudiger

Weitere Mitwirkende

Marmor, Debra

Danner, Herbert

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: 20./21. Jahrhundert
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Einzelne Künstler: Biographien, Monografien

Über Autor(innen)

Rudiger Goerner works as Professor of German with Comparative Literature at the Queen Mary University of London. He is Founding Director of the Centre for Anglo-German Cultural Relations, and has authored many acclaimed books including biographies of Rainer Maria Rilke and the poet Georg Trakl.