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Oskar Kokoschka
"The creator has a duty to release what darkens the mind of man. "
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The publication of a postal stamp is often a homage paid by a nation to a place, an event, a remarkable cause or a character which count. The painters and other artists do not escape from this rule. Some are however "forgotten" of postal art. Here, gathered below (French or foreign), emitted stamps (206) or simple studies of stamp (224) in homage to the artists represented on our website. The first French stamp was emitted in 1849, England preceded us by ten years. There is often a share of voyage in this small form of shape paper. The stamp circulates, sails, flies away, it makes dream, then dream a little. M.C.
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Oskar Kokoschka s’établit définitivement en Suisse en 1953, à Villeneuve où il passe les vingt-sept dernières années de sa vie ; il a 94 ans lorsqu’il s’y éteint le 22 février 1980. Il repose dans le cimetière de Clarens (Suisse, Canton de Waad). Une Fondation Oskar Kokoschka (Musée Jenisch) sera créée à Vevey en 1987 par la veuve de l’artiste. En hommage à sa mémoire, la fleur d’un ibiscus rose.
"La peinture, c’est allumer un feu." - Oskar Kokoschka
"Poussé par la curiosité ou les persécutions, Kokoschka fut un artiste nomade, s’attachant à porter témoignage des lieux et des hommes de son temps. En près d’un siècle de vie, il en aura plus que quiconque reflété les embrasements." - Gérard-Georges Lemaire
"Par-delà les récifs noirs / Se précipite ivre de mort / La fiancée du vent embrassé." - Georg Trakl, poète
"Je ne voyage pas avec l’intention romantique de verser des larmes sur le passé." - Oskar Kokoschka
"Le corps ! Il faut prendre conscience de la chair au lieu de la satiner dans l’ornement." - Oskar Kokoschka
"Nous retrouvons dans ses oeuvres l’aspect inachevé, presque avorté qu’entraîne la fougue non mesurée, et surtout le sens caché et la raison interne des choses et des gens, extirpés et étalés en leur nudité par un esprit impitoyable." - Jacques Busse
Notes of biography
Master of the hidden meaning and internal purpose of cities, things and people, Oskar Kokoschka is born in Poechlarn (Austria) in 1886. He attends the School of Decorative Arts in Vienna (1904-1909). Friend and fellow student of Egon Schiele, he is influenced by Klimt. Kokoschka works in the very famous "Viennese Workshops" founded by the architect Josef Hoffmann. In 1908, he has to flee Vienna after the scandal raised by the exhibition of his paintings at the "Erste Wiener Art Show". That same year, the magazine "Die Fackel" takes the defense of the young artist, now excluded from his school.
While he paints his first works, Kokoschka begins his literary work. He publishes his first book of illustrated poems, then poetic dramas that have a definite influence on the Expressionist movement. In 1909 he goes to Switzerland and make contact with the editor of "Der Sturm". In Berlin, he meets Nolde, Pechstein, Kirchner and artists of the “Neue Secession”. He publishes his theater pieces, which are played, often attracting harsh criticism.
Volunteer for World War, he is wounded in 1915 and is reformed in 1917; the experience of the horror brings a violent disturbance morality to his work. He settles in Dresden at the end of the war and is appointed professor at the Academy of Art, and remains it until 1924. He is in contact with Max Beckmann, Otto Mueller, Käthe Kollwitz.
1924-1933 are the years of traveling (France, Spain, England, Tunisia, Italy, Ireland, Algeria, Turkey, Egypt). Kokoschka moves back to Vienna in 1938, leaves very quickly for Prague. In Germany, 417 of his works are confiscated by the Nazi regime, of which 16 are part of the exhibition "Degenerate Art" (Munich). Isn’t Kokoschka innovative, expressionist and Jewish? He flees Prague for London and takes the British nationality in 1947.
Kokoschka travels, he teaches a while in the United States. No need to say all the exhibits and distinctions that his art receives. Oskar Kokoschka dies in 1980 in Switzerland; he takes again his Austrian citizenship in 1975.
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Some were created in lithographic technic, most are simple offset reproductions. They are many those who like collecting these rectangles of paper, monochrome or in games of colours, in matt paper or brilliant, with many words or almost dumb.
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*« La vita e l’opera », H. M. Wingler, Il Saggiatore, Milan, 1961 *« Des druckgraphische werk », 2 Vol., H. W. Friedrich Welz, Verlag Galerie Welz – Verlag Karl Thieming, Salzbourg, 1975-1981 All the complete worksBibliographic track and more
To read about the artist :
- « Art in Vienne, 1898-1918 », Peter Vergo, Phaidon, Londres, 1981
- « O. Kokoschka, 1886-1980 », R. Calvocoressi, Tate Gallery, Londres, 1986
- « O. Kokoschka - Der Sturm », cat. d'expo., Pöchlarn O-Kokoschka-Dokum., 1986
- « Oskar Kokoschka - Aquarelles et dessins », S. Sabarsky, Ed. Herscher, 1991
- « Kokoschka, peintures », R. Calvocoressi, Albin Michel, 1992
- « Kokoschka und Dresden », E. A. Seemann, cat. d'expositions, Dresde, Vienne, 1996
- « O. Kokoschka - Die gemaelde 1906-1929 », Winkler Erling, vol. 1, Ed. Gal. Welz, 1999
- « O. Kokoschka : Erotic sketches », N. Wolf, Ed. Prestel, 2007
- « Humanist und Rebell », cat., M. Brüderlin, Wolfburg Kunstm., Munich, Ed. Hirmer, 2014
- « Kokoschka », collectif, Découvrons L'art du XXème Siècle, Ed. Cercle d'Art, 2017
To read from the artist :
- « Mirages du passé », Ed. Gallimard, Paris, 1984
- « Ma vie », PUF, Paris, 1986
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Stamp by Oskar Kokoschka
The publication of a postal stamp is often a homage paid by a nation to a place, an event, a remarkable cause or a character which count. The painters and other artists do not escape from this rule. Some are however "forgotten" of postal art. Here, gathered below (French or foreign), emitted stamps (206) or simple studies of stamp (224) in homage to the artists represented on our website. The first French stamp was emitted in 1849, England preceded us by ten years. There is often a share of voyage in this small form of shape paper. The stamp circulates, sails, flies away, it makes dream, then dream a little. M.C.
When the stamp is really emitted, the artist name is preceded of an asterisk (*). It is certain that we do not know each stamp emitted for such or such artist; do not hesitate with us to make known them!
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Michelle Champetier Collection / This document is not for sale
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A tribute to Oskar Kokoschka
Sorry this section is only available in french for now.
Oskar Kokoschka s’établit définitivement en Suisse en 1953, à Villeneuve où il passe les vingt-sept dernières années de sa vie ; il a 94 ans lorsqu’il s’y éteint le 22 février 1980. Il repose dans le cimetière de Clarens (Suisse, Canton de Waad). Une Fondation Oskar Kokoschka (Musée Jenisch) sera créée à Vevey en 1987 par la veuve de l’artiste. En hommage à sa mémoire, la fleur d’un ibiscus rose.
"La peinture, c’est allumer un feu." - Oskar Kokoschka
"Poussé par la curiosité ou les persécutions, Kokoschka fut un artiste nomade, s’attachant à porter témoignage des lieux et des hommes de son temps. En près d’un siècle de vie, il en aura plus que quiconque reflété les embrasements." - Gérard-Georges Lemaire
"Par-delà les récifs noirs / Se précipite ivre de mort / La fiancée du vent embrassé." - Georg Trakl, poète
"Je ne voyage pas avec l’intention romantique de verser des larmes sur le passé." - Oskar Kokoschka
"Le corps ! Il faut prendre conscience de la chair au lieu de la satiner dans l’ornement." - Oskar Kokoschka
"Nous retrouvons dans ses oeuvres l’aspect inachevé, presque avorté qu’entraîne la fougue non mesurée, et surtout le sens caché et la raison interne des choses et des gens, extirpés et étalés en leur nudité par un esprit impitoyable." - Jacques Busse
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