Special Envoy to Vienna, Austria
Oskar Kokoschka signs his striking paintings with his initials, often in red, like a target.
His avant-garde painting aims at the heart and does not appease the mind.
It astonishes and carries along like a powerful wind, keeping this power of revelation and thunder which shook Austria at the beginning of the 20th century, yet probed into its soul by the Viennese Sigmund Freud.
His 1909
Pietà
, the poster for his play
Meurtrier, espoir des femmes
, caused a scandal with its femme fatale with twisted arms and mortuary pallor, and her red man, as if flayed alive (today, a fragile treasure of the Leopold Museum).
He did it again.
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