Kokoschka, ‘the great savage’ who stood up to Nazism

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A retrospective of the Austrian artist at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao vindicates the rebellion and radicalism of this great humanist, pacifist and Europeanist

Oskar Kokoschka. ‘Self-portrait of a degenerate artist’, 1937 National Galleries of Scotland, Edimburgo

16/03/2023

Updated at 4:21 p.m.

Egon Schiele took the fame of ‘enfant terrible’ from Viennese art of the early 20th century, but the one who really carded the wool was Oskar Kokoschka (Pöchlarn, Austria, 1886-Montreux, Switzerland, 1980), radical and revolutionary artist, the most rebellious of the rebels, to…

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