OSKAR KOKOSCHKA – PORTRAITS OF PEOPLE AND ANIMALS

“Gustav Klimt called him ‘the greatest talent of the younger generation’. Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen shows the work of Oskar Kokoschka (1886-1980), the master painter who has inspired generations of artists. This major retrospective brings together Kokoschka’s confrontational portraits more than half a century after his work was last exhibited in the Netherlands…

The animal portraits

In addition to numerous portraits of people, the exhibition also features more than twenty paintings of animals. Kokoschka was fascinated by animals, in which he often detected human characteristics. He painted the ‘Mandrill’ in London Zoo, outside public opening times. In the evening he was admitted to the zoo by zoologist Julian Huxley, brother of Aldous Huxley, the author of ‘Brave New World’. Rather than depict the monkey in his small cage with thick bars, Kokoschka shows it in its natural environment.”

Quelle: http://www.boijmans.nl/en/7/kalender/calendaritem/1190/oskar-kokoschka-mensen-en-beesten  

Ort: Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Museumpark 18-20, 3015 CX Rotterdam
The Netherlands

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Bis: 19.01.2014