Oskar Kokoschka – ein Künstlerleben in Lichtbildern
Oskar Kokoschka – An Artist's Life in Photographs

Oskar Kokoschka – ein Künstlerleben in Lichtbildern Oskar Kokoschka – An Artist's Life in Photographs

Aus dem Oskar Kokoschka-Zentrum der Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien From the Oskar Kokoschka-Zentrum of the University of Applied Arts Vienna

In: Edition Angewandte

Edited by: Bernadette Reinhold and Patrick Werkner

Ambra Verlag | 2013

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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 includingA. Madame d’Ora, René Burri andErich Lessing

Author information

Reinhold, head of the Oskar Kokoschka-Zentrum.
Werkner, head of the Collection and Archive of the University of Applied Arts Vienna.

(Deutsch)

Oskar Kokoschka – ein Künstlerleben in Lichtbildern Oskar Kokoschka – An Artist's Life in Photographs

Aus dem Oskar Kokoschka-Zentrum der Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien From the Oskar Kokoschka-Zentrum of the University of Applied Arts Vienna

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