- Titel: Oskar Kokoschka
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- Erschienen: s.l. : Böhlau, 2003
- Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource (1 electronic resource (360 Seiten p.))
- ISBN: 9783205770305
- Sprache: Nicht zu entscheiden
- Schlagwörter: History of the arts ; Arts in general ; Österreich ; Kunst ; Nationalsozialismus
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RVK-Notation:
LI 48350 : Kokoschka, Oskar
- Inhalt: Result of our research is a monographic study dealing with a prominent part of Kokoschka's life and work which has hitherto been regarded too little by scholars. The years of his exile in Prague and particularly in London, where he had to work under a lot of stress and pressure, are the time in which his political allegories came to be. As these works are outside the established canon of art historical development, and as they have no affinity to Surrealism or to Abstract art, scholars have so far spent comparatively less effort to analyse them. This study approaches the group of these works from a transdisciplinary perspective. The authors (G. Sultano is trained historian, P. Werkner art historian) set out from different questions with regard to his oevre and his life. This results in combining the view of a prominent body of Kokoschka's paintings with a biographical perspective set against a political-historical background.The years between 1937 and 1950 were chosen as preliminary structure for a segment of a part of Kokoschka's life and work, in which he was hit to the utmost by the politcal changes of the time. 1937 was picked because of the prominent exhibition which Kokoschka had in that year at the Österreichische Museum für Kunst und Industrie in Vienna and also in the travelling exhibition "Degenerate Art", which was first opened in Munich. 1950 was picked for various reasons, among them the large overview of Kokoschka's work in the "Haus der Kunst" in Munich. By this, the artist was rehabilitated, as it was, at the place of his former degradation.Art historical analysis of Kokoschka's paintings is combined here with poltical history, with reception history and history of institutions, and also with questions regarding the role of the audience. The Viennese exhibition is analysed including studies of some of its proponents, among them the curator Carl Moll, Ferdinand Bloch-Bauer, the maecenas, and the museum's director, Richard Ernst. The show "Degenerate Art", which was held at nearly the same time in Munch, is looked upon with reference to the prototype of such "exhibitions of disgrace". The role attributed to Kokoschka in the show is also analysed. The auction in Lucerne, in 1939, in which highly prominent works from German museums were sold, shows itself as another variation of his defamation in the "Reich".Kokoschka had a prominent role in exile, first in Prague, then in London, where he became a leading figure among emigrants and i
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- Medientyp: E-Book
- Datenquelle: UB Heidelberg , Lizenzfreie Online-Ressourcen , Kunsthistorisches Institut Florenz , Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte in München , Deutsches Forum für Kunstgeschichte in Paris , Bibliotheca Hertziana , Kubikat
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