Word: expressionist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Kokoschka, a high priest of Europe's Expressionist school, paints and draws with desperate passion eerie, flayed-looking nudes, wild-eyed portrait sitters, muddily fantastic landscapes, grotesque figures of saints and demons done in coarse, guttural lines and screaming colors. To connoisseurs, his brooding fantasies are as exciting as the paintings of the Expressionists' idol, Vincent van Gogh...
...first important art training as an architectural designer in Vienna working under famed modern Architect Adolf Loos. In his spare time he painted tortured portraits of his Viennese friends. For his grim portraits and angrily smudged landscapes, collectors paid as high as $8,000. When Hitler invaded Czechoslovakia, Expressionist Kokoschka, caught in Prague, flew to England...
...Today Expressionist Kokoschka lives near London where he paints, writes and thrashes out world problems with a group of refugee intellectuals. From his English patrons, he still gets ?300 a canvas...
...drawings on eucalyptus bark, done, not by Australia's high-brow artists, but by the paint-and-feather-clad, boomerang-throwing natives of the Australian bush. Showing animals, hunting scenes and spirits, these queer, childlike pictures were as unrealistic and imaginative as the screwball drawings of famed German Expressionist Paul Klee (TIME, Oct. 21). Some showed kangaroos and kookaburra birds drawn with their internal organs visible X-ray-wise through the skin. One, depicting a spirit, looked (see cut) like a child's conception of the late Jean Harlow carrying an umbrella and a fan. To paint them...
...Caught by the German invasion of The Netherlands, but still working in his Amsterdam studio, was Max Beckmann, an "Aryan" expressionist regarded by many, before Hitler, as Germany's No. 1 painter. In London, Austrian Expressionist Oskar Kokoschka was trying to find a boat that would take...