There he drew with colored pencil (a technique he developed in Scotland), and painted many local landscape views in watercolour. While in Ullapool, Kokoschka painted a painting of his friend, wealthy industrialist Ferdinand Bloch-Bauer, Uncle of Maria Altmann. The painting hangs at the Kunsthaus Museum in Zurich. Kokoschka became a British citizen in 1946 and would only regain Austrian citizenship in 1978. He died in Montreux on 22 February 1980.1886 -Born in the Lower Austrian town of Pöchlarnġ904 -Receives a state scholarship, studies at the School for Applied Arts He traveled briefly to the United States in 1947 before settling in Switzerland, where he lived the rest of his life. Participates in the "Kunstschau", a joint project of the Vienna Secession and the Vienna Workshop Designs postcards, fans and vignettes for the "Wiener Werkstätte" (Vienna Workshop). Gets the attention of Gustav Klimt and the architect Adolf Loos. Especially Adolf Loos encourages him, he accompanies him on several journeys and also supports him financially.ġ910 -Kokoschka meets Herwarth Walden and the "Sturm-Kreis" (Storm Circle) while
He publishes his expressionist play "Mörder, Hoffnung der Frauen" (Murderer, Hope for Women) in the magazine "Der Sturm" (The Storm)ġ912 -He meets Alma Mahler, widow of the composer Gustav Mahler, with whom he hasĪ passionate affair until 1915, where the end of their relationship brings great depression to him, and he makes a doll of her after which he later destroys as it could not compare to the real woman.ġ915 -Kokoschka is dismissed from the military during World War I which he had Staying in Berlin, for whom he works a lot in the following years.
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