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100th Birthday of Oskar Kokoschka
A painter, illustrator, and author, Oskar Kokoschka is one of the most famous constituents of Expressionism. The stamp shows a detail from the artist's "Self-Portrait with Statuette" from 1966. All his life Kokoschka captured in self-portraits his inner condition which changed throughout phases of his existence. Oskar Kokoschka was born on March 1, 1886 in Pöchlarn. In 1919 he received a professorship in Dresden. His paintings were exhibited in 1922 at the biennial art festival in Venice. In 1931 he returned once again to Vienna. In 1934, after the death of his mother, he moved to Prague. The "art dictatorship" under the Third Reich labelled him a degenerate artist and 417 of his works were confiscated in German museums. Kokoschka emigrated to England. He actualized his "School of Sight" in 1953 in Salzburg. This stamp revives the fascinating prospect of an exhibit of all of Kokoschka's self-portraits. His imagination and intense application of color, which the beholder finds in his portraits, landscapes, and urban portrayals, document an art full of life. Oskar Kokoschka died in Montreux on February 22, 1980.
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