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Article: Viennese Kokoschka: Painter of the Soul, One-Man Movement.(Arts&Entertainment)
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- The New York Observer (New York, NY)
- Article date:
- April 8, 2002
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Byline: Hilton Kramer
The early portraits of the Austrian painter Oskar Kokoschka (1886-1980), which are currently the subject of a mesmerizing exhibition at the Neue Galerie New York, have long been recognized as one of the stellar achievements of the Viennese avant-garde that flourished in the years immediately preceding the First World War. Yet the young Kokoschka, who was 23 when he painted the earliest portraits in this exhibition, was anything but a representative figure in the Vienna of his day. For one thing, his working-class origins made him a natural outsider among its social and cultural elite. For another, the disabused candor he brought to his ...
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