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Dates: during 1950-1959
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FAMED Viennese Painter Oskar Kokoschka has long boasted that his portraits captured the secret life of his subjects. Onetime Big Time Dancer Adele Astaire, who had never seen the original, last week viewed a color reproduction of her Kokoschka portrait (see color page) for the first time since it was painted in 1926, let out a cry of anguish, posed for a photographic version, finally calmed down enough to remark, "Well, it's better to be remembered as hideous and funny than not to be noticed at all." See ART, Psychological Portraitist...
Died. Prince Oskar Karl Gustav Adolf of Prussia, 69, last surviving son of Kaiser Wilhelm II, who got bounced from army ranks (he was a major general) in 1940 when Hitler slapped down on old royalty; of cancer; in Munich...
...much-praised Kokoschka with their hesitant drawing which often falls far short of any satisfying conclusion, Kubin's unpretentious drawings are refreshing. Nevertheless, whatever qualifications one makes in Kokoschka's case, his merits become evident when compared with the unhappy commercialism of Paul Kleinschmidt's At the Bar or Oskar Schlemmer's Three Figures...
...Rubens, burned into his memory. In the postwar years of angry anarchy Grosz emerged as the self-styled "propagandada" of the Dada movement's antiart antics. (Today Grosz, an American citizen, lives on Long Island, N.Y., paints landscapes, nudes, and insect parables that "express the emptiness of man.") Oskar Kokoschka was shot and bayoneted through the chest on the Russian front, but survived. Seven years after the war he was jaunting about Europe, capturing in London Bridge (opposite), a bird's-eye view of what he still calls "one of the finest rivers in the world with some...
...crowded his canvases to the bursting point, but recovered much of Germany's lost humanism. The most intense group of artists was at the Bauhaus, where the new center of architecture, with its goal of "art and technology -a new synthesis," attracted U.S. Painter Lyonel Feininger, Josef Albers, Oskar Schlemmer and Klee. There Kandinsky combined abstract geometric forms with color in Composition VIII to arrive at a new and colder art that he hoped would have the quality of "burning power in an icy chalice." The closing of the Bauhaus in May 1933 signaled the beginning of a second...