Oskar Kokoschka – ein Künstlerleben in Lichtbildern Oskar Kokoschka – An Artist's Life in Photographs
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About this book
First comprehensive photo-biography
The photographic estate of Oskar and Olda Kokoschka comprises approximately 5.000 photographs. It contains portraits by renowned photographers, including Madame d’Ora (Dora Kallmus), Hugo Erfurth, Brassaï, George Platt Lynes, René Burri, Trude Fleischmann or Erich Lessing. Apart from artistically composed images, the estate also features numerous press photographs and astonishing snapshots. With its extensive commentary, this first photo-biography of Kokoschka provides an insight into the artist’s many-faceted work and eventful life. The publication offers a vivid record of the evolution of photography and a historico-cultural journey through the 20th century as reflected by the mirror of this extraordinary artist.
Unusual insights into the creative oeuvre and life of an extraordinary artist
An annotated documentation of the 5000 photographs in the artist’s estate
Contains portraits by major photographers including A. Madame d’Ora, René Burri and Erich Lessing
Author / Editor information
Reinhold, head of the Oskar Kokoschka-Zentrum.
Werkner, head of the Collection and Archive of the University of Applied Arts Vienna.
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