Oskar Kokoschka in WWII

Oskar Kokoschka

An Austrian-born painter, poet, playwright, and educator. One of the leading figures of Expressionism, particularly known for his portraits and landscapes characterized by intense brushwork and psychological tension. He was active within avant-garde artistic circles such as the Vienna Secession and the Wiener Werkstätte, and associated with Adolf Loos and Herwarth Walden. A defining feature of his work is his attempt to portray not just the external appearance of individuals, but their inner psychological states and the unconscious through painting. He served as an Austro-Hungarian cavalry soldier in World War I and sustained severe injuries, and during World War II, he was deemed a "degenerate artist" by the Nazis and fled into exile in Czechoslovakia and Britain. After the war, he based his long activity in Switzerland.

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Year	Oskar Kokoschka
1886	Birth of Oskar Kokoschka (Period: March 1, 1886, Location: Pöchlarn (currently the Republic of Austria, Lower Austria))
1904	Admission to the Vienna School of Arts and Crafts (Age: 17 years old, Period: 1904, Location: Vienna, Austria-Hungary)
1908	Controversy over "The Dreamers" and expulsion from the School of Arts and Crafts (Age: 21 years old, Period: 1908, Location: Vienna, Austria-Hungary) Exhibition of "The Dreamers" (Age: 21 years old, Period: 1908, Location: Vienna, Austria-Hungary) Advancement into the Viennese avant-garde art world (Age: 21 years old, Period: 1908–1910, Location: Vienna, Austria-Hungary)
1910	Relocation to Berlin (Age: 23 years old, Period: 1910, Location: Berlin, Germany)
1912	Love affair with Alma Mahler (Age: 25 years old, Period: 1912–1915, Location: Vienna, Berlin, etc.)
1913	Creation of "The Bride of the Wind" (Age: 26 years old, Period: 1913–1914, Location: German-speaking world centered on Vienna and Berlin)
1914	World War I (Age: 27 years old, Period: 1914–1918, Location: Western Front, Belgium and France)
1915	Military service in World War I (Age: 28 years old, Period: 1914–1918, Location: Western Front) Severe injury in World War I (Age: 28 years old, Period: 1915, Location: Eastern Front in the Ukraine direction)
1918	Creation of the Alma doll (Age: 31 years old, Period: 1918, Location: Dresden, Germany)
1919	Appointment as professor at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts (Age: 32 years old, Period: 1919, Location: Dresden, Germany)
1920	Bullet damage to Rubens' painting "Bathsheba at the Fountain" (Age: 34 years old, Period: March 15, 1920, Location: Dresden, Germany)
1922	Participation in the International Congress of Progressive Artists (Age: 35 years old, Period: 1922, Location: Düsseldorf, Germany)
1924	Travels and creative activities around the world (Age: 37 years old, Period: 1924–1931, Location: Europe, North Africa, Asia Minor, etc.)
1931	Creation of municipal works for "Red Vienna" (Age: 44 years old, Period: 1931, Location: Vienna, Austria)
1934	Designation as a "degenerate artist" by the Nazis and exile (Age: 47 years old, Period: 1934–1938, Location: Austria, Prague, Czechoslovakia) Exile to Prague (Age: 47 years old, Period: 1934, Location: Prague, Czechoslovakia)
1935	Acquisition of Czechoslovak citizenship (Age: 48 years old, Period: 1935, Location: Czechoslovakia)
1938	Creation of political allegorical works concerning the Munich Agreement (Age: 51 years old, Period: 1938–1941, Location: London, United Kingdom) Exile to Britain (Age: 51 years old, Period: 1938, Location: From Czechoslovakia to Britain)
1939	World War II (Age: 52 years old, Period: 1939–1945, Location: UK, France, North Africa, Mediterranean, Atlantic, etc.) Anti-fascist art activities in Britain (Age: 52 years old, Period: 1939–1945, Location: London, Polperro, United Kingdom)
1941	Marriage (Oskar Kokoschka, Olga Palkovska, Age: 54 years old, Period: 1941, Location: Exile-period Europe including life in Czechoslovakia or Britain)
1947	Acquisition of British citizenship (Age: 60 years old, Period: 1947, Location: United Kingdom)
1953	Relocation to Villeneuve, Switzerland (Age: 66 years old, Period: 1953, Location: Villeneuve, Switzerland)
1962	Tate Gallery retrospective exhibition (Age: 75 years old, Period: 1962, Location: London, United Kingdom)
1966	Creation of a portrait of Konrad Adenauer (Age: 79 years old, Period: 1966, Location: Germany)
1980	Death of Oskar Kokoschka (Age: 93 years old, Period: February 22, 1980)

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Nazi Germany	Adolf Hitler Paul von Hindenburg Hermann Göring Joseph Goebbels Heinrich Himmler Rudolf Hess Martin Ludwig Bormann Joachim von Ribbentrop Albert Speer Hermann Wilhelm Göring Paul Joseph Goebbels
Weimar Republic	Friedrich Ebert Gustav Stresemann Wilhelm Marx Heinrich Brüning Hermann Müller Friedrich Naumann Matthias Erzberger Walther Rathenau
German Anti-Nazis	Dietrich Bonhoeffer Claus Philipp Maria Justinian Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg Hans Oster Ludwig Beck Carl Friedrich Goerdeler Erwin von Witzleben Hans Scholl Sophie Scholl Alexander Schmorell Christoph Probst
Warsaw Ghetto	Mordechai Anielewicz Marek Edelman Tuvia Bielski Abba Kovner Henryk Goldszmit Emanuel Ringelblum
Arts & Music	Pablo Picasso Paul Klee Wassily Kandinsky Käthe Schmidt Oskar Kokoschka Egon Schiele Arnold Schoenberg Alban Berg Anton Webern

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