Comenius Portfolio
Oskar Kokoschka (Pöchlarn 1886 - Montreux 1980)
Lot-No. 554
Proceeds : 1.300 €
Six serigraphs, of which five in colours, 50 65 cm, all lo. ri. autographed and dat. O. Kokoschka 1976, lo. le. num. 110/350, colophon, autographed text sheet, disc record, booklet, original portfolio, one serigraph in colours missing. - As an extra: self portrait, lithograph/BFK Rive, 64,5 x 50,5 cm, in the stone monogr. OK, unframed. - Austrian painter, graphic artist and poet of expressionism. K. studied at the Vienna art school among others under G. Klimt but rejected the Art Nouveau style and developed a subjective emotional pictorial language. He was member of the Berlin Freie Sezession. Among his most important exhibitions was the participation in the Documenta I to III. Mus.: Basel, Stuttgart, Hamburg (Kunsthalle), Hannover (Sprengel Museum), New York (MoMA), Prague, Cologne a. others Lit.: Thieme-Becker, Vollmer, Spielmann 'O.K. - Leben u. Werk', Wingler/Welz 'K. - Das druckgraph. Werk' a. others.
Oskar Kokoschka: Comenius Portfolio
Oskar Kokoschka (Pöchlarn 1886 - Montreux 1980)
Comenius Portfolio
Lot-No. 554
Proceeds : 1.300 €
Six serigraphs, of which five in colours, 50 65 cm, all lo. ri. autographed and dat. O. Kokoschka 1976, lo. le. num. 110/350, colophon, autographed text sheet, disc record, booklet, original portfolio, one serigraph in colours missing. - As an extra: self portrait, lithograph/BFK Rive, 64,5 x 50,5 cm, in the stone monogr. OK, unframed. - Austrian painter, graphic artist and poet of expressionism. K. studied at the Vienna art school among others under G. Klimt but rejected the Art Nouveau style and developed a subjective emotional pictorial language. He was member of the Berlin Freie Sezession. Among his most important exhibitions was the participation in the Documenta I to III. Mus.: Basel, Stuttgart, Hamburg (Kunsthalle), Hannover (Sprengel Museum), New York (MoMA), Prague, Cologne a. others Lit.: Thieme-Becker, Vollmer, Spielmann 'O.K. - Leben u. Werk', Wingler/Welz 'K. - Das druckgraph. Werk' a. others.