Oskar KokoschkaAustria, 1886–1980Flower Garden (Blumengarten)
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- 389.1991
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Nella vita di Oskar Kokoschka
Tutta la vita1908
A scandalous debut at the Vienna Kunstschau
In 1908 Kokoschka was invited to submit works to the first Vienna Kunstschau. Instead of the colour pictures for a children’s book commissioned by Fritz Wärndorfer, director of the Wiener Werkstätte, he showed illustrations to his own poem “Die träumenden Knaben” and a tapestry, “The Dream Bearers” (now lost); the frank adolescent fantasies provoked a backlash from conservative officials and he was expelled from the school, but found his place in the Viennese avant-garde.
1908
The book “Die träumenden Knaben” with lithographs
Kokoschka published the poem, written a year earlier, with the Wiener Werkstätte, with two small black-and-white and eight larger colour lithographs, and dedicated it to Gustav Klimt. Of the five hundred copies only a small proportion were bound and sold; the poem is an autobiographical adolescent fantasy about his love for a Swedish classmate, Lilith.
1909
The scandalous staging of “Murderer, the Hope of Women”
Kokoschka’s play “Murderer, the Hope of Women” was first staged in 1909, and the production on a Viennese stage caused a scandal. The play is often called the first Expressionist drama; Paul Hindemith made an opera of it in 1921.
1909–1914
Adolf Loos: patron and commissioner of portraits
The architect Adolf Loos befriended Kokoschka, introduced him to the Viennese avant-garde and ordered portraits of his clients and friends, agreeing to buy the work if the sitter declined. This left Kokoschka complete artistic freedom; he painted the bulk of his portraiture between 1909 and 1914.
