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...world like a candy castle in some fairy tale. A tiny railway scrambles to the top, and tourists flock to the terrace for a breath of mountain air and a view of the Salzburg valley below. Last week the tourists had an extra surprise in store for them. Oskar Kokoschka, one of the most furious individualists in modern art (TIME, July 12, 1948), had taken over the barracks of the old fortress for a summer art school, and was making it echo like a nest of angry young eagles...
Patches for Pants. Austrian-born Oskar Kokoschka, whom Hitler once called the most degenerate of all European artists, follows no set school, and he is at war with all who do. Most of the time he works with brutal vigor, painting fierce nudes, expressionistic portraits, or turbulent landscapes done with flailing, cutlasslike strokes of his brush and furnace-bright colors. "Nobody else can do these things," he cries, pointing to the tortured convolutions on a nude drawing. "Who would dare? I am a being with antenna. I receive with my senses." But when the mood is right, he can turn...
Candid Cameras. Until the Leica (a compound of Leitz and camera) was invented in 1914 by Oskar Barnack, a Leitz employee, the company was one of the world's leading makers of microscopes.* Its founder, Ernst Leitz, a German who had worked with a Swiss watchmaker before settling in Wetzlar, introduced the watch industry's mass-production technique to microscopy. When the Leica was added as a sideline, the tail began wagging the dog. As a worldwide craze for miniature cameras and candid photography grew, so did Leitz. By World War II, the company had 3,000 employees...
Decision Before Dawn. A German prisoner (Oskar Werner) sweats out a mission as a U.S. spy in Germany on the brink of defeat in World War II (TIME...
Decision Before Dawn. A German prisoner (Oskar Werner) sweats out a mission as a U.S. spy in Germany on the brink of defeat in World War II (TIME...