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The Kunst\u00admu\u00adseum is celebra\u00adting its 20th birthday. It is marking the occasion with the exhibi\u00adtion \u201cOskar Kokoschka. Humanist and Rebel\u201d, which is primarily devoted to the portraits by this extra\u00adord\u00adninary modern artist. The show recalls the start of the Kunstmuseum\u2019s success story in 1994 with a retro\u00adspec\u00adtive on the work of the French artist Fernand L\u00e9ger. Even before then, namely between 1952 and 1967, the former chairman of Volks\u00adwagen Heinrich Nordhoff initiated much-noticed exhibi\u00adtions on Franz Marc, Lovis Corinth and Vincent van Gogh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

In Oskar Kokoschka\u2019s (1886\u20131980) portraits we encounter one of the most extra\u00ador\u00addi\u00adnary artists of the 20th century. His life and work were shaped by the emergence of the avant-garde amidst the social and political turmoil of his day. Kokoschka himself repres\u00adents the golden thread through this exhibi\u00adtion in the Kunst\u00admu\u00adseum Wolfsburg: the people he knew and his view of humanity and society. Over and above their artistic quality, Kokoschka\u2019s portraits reveal him to be a true humanist and rebel. With his distinc\u00adtive expres\u00adsive painting style and dramatic use of brush\u00adstrokes he was further\u00admore a decisive influence on the so-called \u201cNeue Wilde\u201d of the 1980s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Kunst\u00admu\u00adseum is celebra\u00adting its 20th birthday with this special exhibi\u00adtion. It ties onto the museum\u2019s opening in 1994 with works by Fernand L\u00e9ger and likewise recalls the major art events extending back to the young city of Wolfsburg\u2019s early post-war period. Between 1952 and 1967, Heinrich Nordhoff, former chairman of Volks\u00adwagen, initiated much-noticed exhibi\u00adtions on Franz Marc, Lovis Corinth and Vincent van Gogh in addition to thematic shows on German and French painting as well as Japanese woodcuts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When the young Oskar Kokoschka entered the stage of art in Vienna with his passio\u00adna\u00adtely restless works, he encoun\u00adtered the milieu of Viennese modernism. Arriving in Berlin in 1910, he was actively parti\u00adci\u00adpated in Herwarth Walden\u2019s magazine \u201cDer Sturm\u201d with his prints, exhibited together with artists from the Berlin Secession and created a stir with his plays. As a painter, print\u00admaker and author Oskar Kokoschka advanced not only to become one of the most prominent propon\u00adents of Viennese modernism but also one of the most idiosyn\u00adcratic advocates of Expressionism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOskar Kokoschka. Humanist and Rebel\u201d is oriented on the develo\u00adp\u00adment of this excep\u00adtional oeuvre. The starting point of the exhibi\u00adtion encom\u00adpas\u00adsing 55 paintings and 138 works on paper in Kokoschka\u2019s time at the Kunst\u00adge\u00adwer\u00adbe\u00adschule in Vienna (1905\u22121908), his work for the Wiener Werkst\u00e4tte and contri\u00adbu\u00adtions to the Kunst\u00adschau 1908, which is still regarded today as a pionee\u00adring event in the history Viennese modernism. The spirit of a new beginning and the avant-garde influ\u00adenced by such perso\u00adna\u00adli\u00adties as Gustav Klimt, Sigmund Freud, Gustav Mahler and Arthur Schnitzler exuded throughout Vienna. In 1909, the multi\u00adta\u00adlented Oskar Kokoschka caused a scandal with his one-act play \u201cMurderer, the Hope of Women\u201d, and subse\u00adquently shaved his head to protest the hefty criticism directed at him and his work. This was followed by Kokoschka\u2019s early portraits, most of which were produced in Vienna between 1909 and 1914 thanks to the inter\u00adces\u00adsion of Adolf Loos, among them of friends such as the journa\u00adlist and satirist Karl Kraus and the actor Karl Etlinger. In his expres\u00adsive pictorial inven\u00adtions from this time, which are oriented on the person and his surroun\u00addings, he rebelled against the predo\u00admi\u00adnant histo\u00adri\u00adcism and the ornament-governed Art Nouveau. His years in Berlin from 1910 to 1916, during which he frequently travelled to Vienna, are distin\u00adguished by the colla\u00adbo\u00adra\u00adtion with Herwarth Walden and his magazine \u201cDer Sturm\u201d. When Kokoschka went to Berlin in 1910 he became acquainted with Franz Marc and met with such artists as Else Lasker-Sch\u00fcler, Rudolf Bl\u00fcmner, Peter Baum, Richard Dehmel and Alfred Kerr, whose portraits can be found in the exhibi\u00adtion. His stormy affair with Alma Mahler, the widow of the composer Gustav Mahler, between 1912 and 1914 inspired numerous paintings, prints and drawings in addition to his first pieces on the theme of music. But when Alma Mahler aborted their joint child and two of them separated, Kokoschka fell into a deep crisis and volun\u00adte\u00adered for active service in the Austrian army.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kokoschka was seriously wounded in World War I. After recovering, he accepted a profes\u00adsor\u00adship in Dresden, where he taught from 1916 to 1923. During this time, Kokoschka reinvented himself both artis\u00adti\u00adcally and perso\u00adnally. As a means of overco\u00adming the separa\u00adtion, he commis\u00adsioned a live-sized doll modeled after Alma Mahler in 1918. This curious object also served as the motifs for a series of portraits. The most signi\u00adfi\u00adcant change resulting from the inter\u00adrup\u00adtion of artistic activity caused by the war was his transi\u00adtion from a painting style based largely on drawing in which the line dominated to a manner of painting in which form was constructed from the starting point of color.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kokoschka left Dresden in 1923 in order to travel through Europe and North Africa. He returned to Vienna in 1931 after these extensive trips on which he painted numerous animal pictures, but he commuted back and forth between there and Paris during the next several years. He left Austria for good in 1934 because of the political situation, fleeing to Prague, where he would meet his future wife Olda. Here and during his years of exile in London Kokoschka produced largely allego\u00adrical portraits of women and addition to numerous political works. Over 400 of his works were confis\u00adcated from German museums by the National Socia\u00adlists and were destroyed in parts. Kokoschka himself, whose work was denounced at the Munich \u201cEntartete Kunst\u201d exhibi\u00adtion, was declared \u201cArt Enemy # 1.\u201d In 1953 Kokoschka moved with his wife Olda, who he married in London in 1941, to Ville\u00adneuve, Switzerland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The exhibi\u00adtion concludes with the artist\u2019s view of himself, the group of self-portraits produced between 1906 and 1972: \u00bbAnd when I made self-portraits \u2026, it was only to ascertain: What is the human being really? The human being is not merely the surface, not that part that can be photographed.\u00ab<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The exhibi\u00adtion is supported by Volks\u00adwagen Financial Services AG.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The exhibi\u00adtion catalogue is on sale for 38 Euros and can also be ordered in our online shop.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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