The Frogs of Aristophanes
Oskar Kokoschka (Pöchlarn 1886 - Montreux 1980)
Lot-No. 371
Proceeds : 1.300 €
1967/68, twelve drypoints, 26 x 20 cm, each lo. ri. autographed O. Kokoschka, lo. le. num. IV/LXX, lo. ri. blind stamp 'Ars Librorum, Edition de Beauclair, Frankfurt am Main', all framed under glass, uninspected out of frame. - Literature: Cat. rais.: Wingler/Welz 437-448 - Austrian painter, graphic artist a. poet of expressionism. K. studied at the Vienna art school among others under G. Klimt but rejected the Art Nouveau style a. 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: The Frogs of Aristophanes
Oskar Kokoschka (Pöchlarn 1886 - Montreux 1980)
The Frogs of Aristophanes
Lot-No. 371
Proceeds : 1.300 €
1967/68, twelve drypoints, 26 x 20 cm, each lo. ri. autographed O. Kokoschka, lo. le. num. IV/LXX, lo. ri. blind stamp 'Ars Librorum, Edition de Beauclair, Frankfurt am Main', all framed under glass, uninspected out of frame. - Literature: Cat. rais.: Wingler/Welz 437-448 - Austrian painter, graphic artist a. poet of expressionism. K. studied at the Vienna art school among others under G. Klimt but rejected the Art Nouveau style a. 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.
