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CAPABLE OF REVEALING THE MODEL’S INNER SELF.
WORLD-CLASS ART LOOSELY MATCH THE FORMS REPRESENTED AND
IN KOKOSCHKA’S WORKS, REPRESENTATIONS VERY

EVERYTHING DISSOLVES INTO PURE, DAZZLING
COLORS. KOKOSCHKA STANDS OUT FOR HIS

OSKAR KOKOSCHKA:
HIS BELIEF THAT “THE ARTIST MUST SERVE AS A
A REBEL FROM VIENNA EXTRAORDINARY COMMITMENT TO PACIFISM IN
WARNING”.
Exhibitions: Oskar Kokoschka. A Rebel from Vienna,
Curators: Dieter Buchhart and Anna Karina Hofbauer in The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao and the Musée
collaboration with Fabrice Hergott and Fanny Schulmann. d’Art Moderne de Paris, Paris Musées present
Exhibition organised by the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao and Oskar Kokoschka. A Rebel from Vienna, a major
the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris, Paris Musées. Exclusive retrospective devoted to the Austrian artist
Sponsor: BBVA Foundation. considered one of the fathers of Viennese
modernism. The exhibition is sponsored exclusively
by BBVA Foundation, Strategic Trustee of the
KOKOSCHKA CONSTANTLY REINVENTED HIMSELF Guggenheim Museum Bilbao. Oskar Kokoschka (b.
AND PRODUCED A REVOLUTIONARY BODY OF ART AS 1886; d. 1980) garnered early success in Vienna’s
A POLITICAL ACTIVIST, CHAMPION OF FIGURATIVE art scene, where he was backed by Gustav Klimt,
ART, AND PAINTER OF SOULS. LEAVING CLASSICAL exerted an influence on Egon Schiele when the
IDEALS BEHIND, KOKOSCHKA USED THE GENRE OF latter was young, and achieved international renown
PORTRAITURE AS AN ANALYTICAL INSTRUMENT at the end of his career after the two world wars.

Oskar Kokoschka. The Painter II (The Painter and His Model II) [Der Maler II (Maler und
Modell II)], 1923 Oil on canvas 85.5 × 130.5 cm. Saint-Louis, Saint Louis Art Museum,
Bequest of Morton D. May, 1983. © Fondation Oskar Kokoschka, 2023, VEGAP, Bilbao

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