Oskar Kokoschka
LightNews LightNews
banner
okokoschka.bsky.social
Oskar Kokoschka
@okokoschka.bsky.social
300 followers 3 following 2.2K posts
Fan account of Oskar Kokoschka, an Austrian artist best known for his intense expressionistic portraits and landscapes.
1886-1980
Automated #artbot thanks to @andreitr.bsky.social and @botfrens.bsky.social
Posts Replies Media Videos
okokoschka.bsky.social
Venice Dogana https://www.wikiart.org/en/oskar-kokoschka/not_detected_235894
Venice Dogana
November 23, 2025 at 5:09 PM
okokoschka.bsky.social
Ambassador Ivan Maisky http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/kokoschka-ambassador-ivan-maisky-n05432
Presented by Dr Henry Dreyfuss 1943
November 23, 2025 at 2:51 PM
okokoschka.bsky.social
Plate from The Dreaming Youths https://collections.artsmia.org/art/64230/
Plate from The Dreaming Youths
November 23, 2025 at 11:36 AM
okokoschka.bsky.social
Plate from The Dreaming Youths https://collections.artsmia.org/art/64237/
Plate from The Dreaming Youths
November 23, 2025 at 8:07 AM
okokoschka.bsky.social
Augustus Bridge - Dresden https://www.wikiart.org/en/oskar-kokoschka/not_detected_235876
Augustus Bridge - Dresden
November 22, 2025 at 7:54 PM
okokoschka.bsky.social
The Murder (Der Mord) (plate, folio 3 verso) from Die Chinesische Mauer (The Great Wall of China) http://www.moma.org/collection/works/15970
Purchase Fund
November 22, 2025 at 4:32 PM
okokoschka.bsky.social
Plate (folio 4) from Mörder, Hoffnung der Frauen (Murderer, Hope of Women) http://www.moma.org/collection/works/26714
The Louis E. Stern Collection
November 22, 2025 at 2:16 PM
okokoschka.bsky.social
Charles Bridge https://www.wikiart.org/en/oskar-kokoschka/not_detected_235891
Charles Bridge
November 22, 2025 at 11:58 AM
okokoschka.bsky.social
Illustration for 'Die Traumenden Knaben' https://www.wikiart.org/en/oskar-kokoschka/illustration-for-die-traumenden-knaben-1908
Illustration for 'Die Traumenden Knaben'
November 22, 2025 at 9:13 AM
okokoschka.bsky.social
Portrait of Carl Moll https://www.wikiart.org/en/oskar-kokoschka/portrait-of-carl-moll
Portrait of Carl Moll
November 21, 2025 at 3:59 PM
okokoschka.bsky.social
Self-Portrait of the Artist Lost in Thought in Front of Gravestone (Selbstbildnis des vor einem Grabstein in Gedanken versunkenen Künstlers) (title page) from Ann Eliza Reed http://www.moma.org/collection/works/26734
The Louis E. Stern Collection
November 21, 2025 at 2:08 PM
okokoschka.bsky.social
Christ Crowned with Thorns (Christi Dornenkrönung) from the series The Passion (Die Passion) http://www.moma.org/collection/works/72823
Given anonymously
November 21, 2025 at 10:37 AM
okokoschka.bsky.social
Commerce Counselor Ebenstein https://www.artic.edu/artworks/2893/
Despite its early date (Oskar Kokoschka described it as his second finished painting), this portrait already reveals the artist's great gifts as a portraitist and the hallmarks of his highly personal form of Expressionism. Like Max Beckmann and Chaim Soutine, Kokoschka used calculated distortions of line and color in a highly individual manner to give emotional force to his paintings. As a student in Vienna, he was influenced not only by the German Expressionist artists of Die Briicke (The Bridge), but also by Gustav Klimt and by Jugendstijl art, as shown by the sensitive, nervous line and the touch of melancholy that came to characterize his work.Kokoschka met his sitter through the avant-garde architect Adolf Loos, who introduced him to Vienna's high society and thus provided him with subjects for a penetrating series of portraits. As tailor to the Austrian imperial court, Ernst Ebenstein was one of the most accomplished and admired members in the world of Viennese high fashion. During a visit to the Art Institute in 1958, Kokoschka remembered him as kind and generous. Ebenstein had offered to make the artist some clothes and had taught him a great deal about anatomy based on his sartorial experience as a perceptive observer of the human body. Kokoschka's affection for his sitter seems to be reflected in the compassionate yet unflinching honesty with which he recorded the signs of age on his face and hands. The sitter has been caught in a moment of relaxed introspection, his gaze averted from the viewer, his social persona momentarily laid aside to reveal his inner self. Even the sitter's impeccable black attire has a crumpled, weathered quality that bespeaks human vulnerability and frailty. As in other portraits by Kokoschka, the hands constitute a psychological focus as strong as that of the face. The artist's expressive distortions are especially evident here. Painted in a vivid orange, these gnarled and bony hands seem to express the man's very essence and become the locus of his professional and psychological identity. —Entry, Margherita Andreotti, Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies, Vol. 20, No. 2, The Joseph Winterbotham Collection at The Art Institute of Chicago (1994), p. 136-137. Joseph Winterbotham Collection
November 21, 2025 at 10:10 AM
okokoschka.bsky.social
Ludwing Ritter von Janikowsky https://www.wikiart.org/en/oskar-kokoschka/not_detected_235854
Ludwing Ritter von Janikowsky
November 20, 2025 at 7:20 PM
okokoschka.bsky.social
Self-portrait (Fiesole) https://www.wikiart.org/en/oskar-kokoschka/self-portrait-fiesole-1948
Self-portrait (Fiesole)
November 20, 2025 at 4:12 PM
okokoschka.bsky.social
Christian Love (Die christliche Liebe) (plate, folio 11) from Die Chinesische Mauer (The Great Wall of China) http://www.moma.org/collection/works/15975
Purchase Fund
November 20, 2025 at 2:30 PM
okokoschka.bsky.social
Adele Astaire https://www.wikiart.org/en/oskar-kokoschka/not_detected_235829
Adele Astaire
November 20, 2025 at 10:33 AM
okokoschka.bsky.social
Doctor Glasberg Carrying the Unconscious Ann Eliza Reed into the House (Der Arzt Glasberg trägt die bewußtlose Ann Eliza Reed ins Haus) (plate, folio 8) from Ann Eliza Reed http://www.moma.org/collection/works/26737
The Louis E. Stern Collection
November 20, 2025 at 10:17 AM
okokoschka.bsky.social
Crucifixion (Golgotha) https://www.wikiart.org/en/oskar-kokoschka/crucifixion-golgotha-1912
Crucifixion (Golgotha)
November 19, 2025 at 7:45 PM
okokoschka.bsky.social
Cologne Cathedral https://collections.artsmia.org/art/1943/
In his paintings, Oskar Kokoschka wished to make visible the invisible; he wanted to capture and describe the essence of his subject matter. In Cologne Cathedral, Kokoschka effectively portrays the grandeur of this giant Gothic cathedral while also showing the morning light streaming through the stained glass windows and dancing along the nave. He painted this interior scene from September 28 to October 17, 1956, every morning from 9 a.m. to noon, with the exception of Sundays when Mass was held. Each morning, workers connected to the Cathedral's workshop suspended a wooden balcony from the triforium, a gallery half way up the walls, from where Kokoschka painted this scene. Cologne Cathedral was severely bombed during World War II and most of the building repairs were completed by 1956, the year Kokoschka painted this. The stained glass window in the south transept was destroyed in the bombings and was temporarily filled with plain glass until recently. In August 2007, German artist Gerhard Richter created a new stained glass window for the cathedral made of 11,500 square panes meant to resemble the digital picture element of pixels.
November 19, 2025 at 5:20 PM
okokoschka.bsky.social
Romana Kokoschka http://www.moma.org/collection/works/72758
Purchase
November 19, 2025 at 2:46 PM
okokoschka.bsky.social
Untitled http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/kokoschka-no-title-p09109
Presented by Mrs Olda Kokoschka, the artist's widow 1984
November 19, 2025 at 11:29 AM
okokoschka.bsky.social
Title plate from The Dreaming Youths https://collections.artsmia.org/art/90278/
Title plate from The Dreaming Youths
November 19, 2025 at 9:46 AM
okokoschka.bsky.social
Pietá https://collections.artsmia.org/art/46222/
Pietá
November 18, 2025 at 6:43 PM
okokoschka.bsky.social
Loreley http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/kokoschka-loreley-t05486
Presented by Mrs Olda Kokoschka, the artist's widow, in honour of the directorship of Sir Alan Bowness 1988
November 18, 2025 at 4:21 PM