Oskar Kokoschka

Original Price: $50.00UP TO 20% ADDITIONAL SAVINGS FOR MEMBERS Edited by Tobias G. Natter Oskar Kokoschka (1886-1980) is considered one of the leading figures of the Expressionist movement. This catalogue provides an in-depth analysis of the sitters for his earliest portraits, painted in Vienna and Berlin on the eve of World War I, including Alma Mahler, Adolf Loos, and Peter Altenberg. In addition to the oil portraits, the catalogue includes a rare selection of the artist’s drawings, as well as examples of Kokoschka’s work for the Wiener Werkstätte, such as designs for postcards, fans and an illustrated book. Special attention is devoted to the architect Adolf Loos, who had a guiding role in the artistic development of the young Kokoschka. Please note that Rare/Out-of-Print titles are very limited in stock. Also available in German. Hardcover256 pagesNeue Galerie New YorkDumont Buchverlag, 20029.2 x 1 x 11 inches ISBN 9781931794046Neue Galerie Exhibition Catalogue, Expressionism, Drawing, Painting, Portraiture

Oskar Kokoschka: Early Portraits from Vienna and Berlin 1909-1914

Original Price: $50.00UP TO 20% ADDITIONAL SAVINGS FOR MEMBERS Bei Tobias G. NatterDie Neue Galerie New York und die Hamburger Kunsthalle widmen den frühen Bildnissen von Oskar Kokoschka eine erste große Gesamtschau und konzentrieren sich damit auf das zentrale Werksegment der Jahre 1909 bis 1914, mit dem der Maler seinen Ruhm begründete und zur Leitfigur des Expressionismus wurde. Das Katalogbuch zur Ausstellung, herausgegeben von Tobias Natter, verbindet die Wiedergabe der frühen Bildnisse mit einfühlsamen Werkinterpretationen und Hinweisen auf die porträtierten Personen, unter denen sich zum weitaus überwiegenden Teil Freunde, Förderer und Gleichgesinnte des Malers befinden. Die Essays zeichnen ein plastisches Zeitkolorit der Metropolen Wien und Berlin unter den Vorzeichen eines tiefgreifenden Umbruchs. In Wien von dem Architekten Adolf Loos und später in Berlin von dem Herausgeber der Zeitschrift "Der Sturm", Herwald Walden, ermutigt und tatkräftig unterstützt, konnte sich Kokoschka von den malerischen Konventionen der Porträtaufträge befreien und seine eigenen expressiven Bildmittel einsetzen. Nachdenklichkeit, eindringliche Gestik der Hände und psychische Spannungen verdrängen alle posenhafte Eleganz gesellschaftlicher Repräsentation. Rascher Farbauftrag und nervöse Ritzungen greifen den Porträtierten unter die Oberfläche ihrer Haut, um ihre Physiognomien für den Blick auf innere Vorgänge durchlässig zu machen. In Kokoschkas frühen Bildnissen spiegelt sich daher nicht nur die Seele der Personen, sie sind auch Reflexe auf die abgrundtiefe Krise dieser Zeit vor dem ersten Weltkrieg. Please note that Rare/Out-of-Print titles are very limited in stock. Also available in English.Hardcover256 pagesText in GermanDuMont Verlag, 20029.2 x 11.2 inchesISBN 9781931794053Neue Galerie Exhibition Catalogue, Expressionism, Portraiture

Oskar Kokoschka: Das Moderne Bildnis 1909 bis 1914

Edited by Elisabeth Schmuttermeier and Christian Witt-Dörring The Wiener Werkstätte or Vienna Workshops was founded in 1903 by architect Josef Hoffmann and artist Koloman Moser. In 1907, the Wiener Werkstätte began publishing a numbered series of postcards, which would ultimately include nearly 1,000 cards. Many of them were designed to celebrate holidays, such as Christmas and Easter. Fashion, both contemporary and historical, became another popular subject, along with humorous topics and favorite tourist spots of the period.All of the major designers who worked for the firm were contributors in this medium including Josef Hoffmann, Oskar Kokoschka, Egon Schiele, and Dagobert Peche. Other noteworthy artists who were active in this area whose names may be less familiar include Moriz Jung, Rudolf Kalvach, Mela Koehler, and Maria Likarz, among others.This catalog raisonné accompanies the first major museum exhibition ever held in the United States devoted exclusively to the postcards produced by the Wiener Werkstätte. The work in the exhibition is drawn exclusively from The Leonard A. Lauder Collection and coincides with the gift of nearly 1,000 of the cards to the Neue Galerie. A selection of these cards will be on view on a regular basis as part of the museum's permanent collection. Please note that Rare/Out-of-Print titles are very limited in stock. Hardcover336 pagesNeue Galerie New YorkHatje Cantz, 20119.5 x 1.5 x 11.2 inchesISBN 9783775727518Neue Galerie Exhibition Catalogue, Graphic Design, History, Essays

Postcards of the Wiener Werkstätte: A Catalogue Raisonné

By Rüdiger Görner Translated by Debra Marmor and Herbert Danner"An unconventional but long expected approach to Kokoschka’s rich oeuvre… This new biography adequately enables a holistic look at Kokoschka as a whole person, with his paintings, writings, enemies and lovers, agonies and hopes."―Catherine Hug, curator of Kunsthaus Zürich"This is a revelatory new biography of Oskar Kokoschka. Rüdiger Görner tells the story of the life and loves of this unique Central European painter and man of letters as he interacted with writers, musicians and artists in his milieu as well as many important political leaders. Arguably full of inner contradictions, Kokoschka remains a hugely significant figure whose relevance is undiminished indeed for these times."―Sir Norman Rosenthal"Görner unearths a plentitude of unexpected and enlightening discoveries about Kokoschka’s life as fully lived in frequent travels, emigration, and deep friendships with the likes of Albert Ehrenstein, Walter Hasenclever, Karl Kraus, Adolf Loos, and Georg Trakl"―Timothy Benson, curator of Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies, Los Angeles County Museum of ArtThe Austrian artist Oskar Kokoschka achieved world fame with his intense expressionistic portraits and landscapes. In this first English-language biography, Rüdiger Görner depicts the artist in all his fascinating and contradictory complexity. He traces Kokoschka’s path from bête noire of the bourgeoisie and a so-called ‘hunger artist’ to a wealthy and cosmopolitan political and critical artist who played a major role in shaping the European art scene of the twentieth century and whose relevance is undiminished to this day.Kokoschka’s achievements as a playwright, essayist and poet bear witness to his remarkable literary talent. Music, too, played a central role in his work, and his passion for teaching led him to establish in 1953 the School of Seeing, an unconventional art school conceived to revive humanist ideals in the horrific aftermath of war.Paperback400 pagesHaus Publishing, 20206 x 9 x 1.4 inchesISBN 9781914979149Biography

Kokoschka: The Untimely Modernist

By Oskar Kokoschka The Austrian painter and graphic artist Oskar Kokoschka was given a commission by the Wiener Werkstätte (Vienna Workshops) in 1907 to design a children’s book. He wrote a text about first love, the period between childhood and adulthood and the longing for foreign countries – issues that already interested him at that time. Kokoschka illustrated his story with color lithographs and also integrated writing into his design. The draft book entirely failed to meet the Wiener Werkstätte’s expectations for a children’s book. Nevertheless, they decided to publish the work with a print run of 500 copies. The book sold poorly, however, in 1917, the Kurt Wolff Verlag in Leipzig acquired and sold the remaining 275 copies. The Dreaming Boys contains a prologue and seven dreams, the vividly colored lithographs that mark the transition from Art Nouveau to Expressionism. The book marked the beginning of Expressionism in Vienna. It is now considered one of the most important illustrated works of the 20th century. Hardcover52 pagesText in GermanInsel Verlag Publishing, 1996Originally published in 19074.8 x 0.4 x 7.3 inchesISBN 9783458191704Artist Monograph, Short Story, Fiction, Printmaking

Die träumenden Knaben/ Der weiße Tiertöter; Geschrieben und gezeichnet von Oskar Kokoschka

By Eric R. Kandel “In a polymathic performance, a Nobel laureate weaves together the theories and practices of neuroscience, art and psychology to show how our creative brains perceive and engage art—and are consequently moved by it . . . A transformative work that joins the hands of Art and Science and makes them acknowledge their close kinship.”—Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review “A fascinating synthesis of art, history, and science that is also accessible to the general reader. A distinctive and important title that is also a pleasure to read”—Library Journal, Starred Review “Eric Kandel’s training as a psychiatrist and his vast knowledge of how the brain works enrich this thoroughly original exploration of the relationship between the birth of psychoanalysis, Austrian Expressionism, and Modernism in Vienna.”—Margaret Livingstone, Professor of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School A brilliant book by Nobel Prize winner Eric R. Kandel, The Age of Insight takes us to Vienna 1900, where leaders in science, medicine, and art began a revolution that changed forever how we think about the human mind—our conscious and unconscious thoughts and emotions—and how mind and brain relate to art. Kandel tells the story of how these pioneers—Freud, Schnitzler, Klimt, Kokoschka, and Schiele—inspired by the Vienna School of Medicine, in turn influenced the founders of the Vienna School of Art History to ask pivotal questions such as What does the viewer bring to a work of art? How does the beholder respond to it? These questions prompted new and ongoing discoveries in psychology and brain biology, leading to revelations about how we see and perceive, how we think and feel, and how we respond to and create works of art. Kandel, one of the leading scientific thinkers of our time, places these five innovators in the context of today’s cutting-edge science and gives us a new understanding of the modernist art of Klimt, Kokoschka, and Schiele, as well as the school of thought of Freud and Schnitzler. Reinvigorating the intellectual enquiry that began in Vienna 1900, The Age of Insight is a wonderfully written, superbly researched, and beautifully illustrated book that also provides a foundation for future work in neuroscience and the humanities. It is an extraordinary book from an international leader in neuroscience and intellectual history. Hardcover656 pagesRandom House Publishers, 20126.6 x 1.6 x 9.5 inchesISBN 9781400068715Austrian History, Art History, Psychology

The Age of Insight

Original Price: $15.00 UP TO 20% ADDITIONAL SAVINGS FOR MEMBERS Oskar Kokoschka (1886-1980), Martha Hirsch (Dreaming Woman), 1909 Exhibition poster for "Oskar Kokoschka: Early Portraits from Vienna and Berlin, 1909-1914" 24 x 36 inches

Oskar Kokoschka Exhibition Poster

Oskar Kokoschka (1886-1980) Martha Hirsch, 1909

Oskar Kokoschka: Martha Hirsch [Postcard]

Oskar Kokoschka (1886-1980) Peter Altenburg, 1909

Oskar Kokoschka: Peter Altenburg [Postcard]

Oskar Kokoschka (1886-1980) Wilhelm Köhler, 1912

Oskar Kokoschka: Wilhelm Köhler [Postcard]

Oskar Kokoschka (1886-1980) Cotton Picker (Baumwollpflückerin) Poster for Kunstschau, Vienna 1908

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Oskar Kokoschka: Early Portraits from Vienna and Berlin 1909-1914

Oskar Kokoschka: Das Moderne Bildnis 1909 bis 1914

Postcards of the Wiener Werkstätte: A Catalogue Raisonné

Kokoschka: The Untimely Modernist

Die träumenden Knaben/ Der weiße Tiertöter; Geschrieben und gezeichnet von Oskar Kokoschka

The Age of Insight

Oskar Kokoschka Exhibition Poster

Oskar Kokoschka: Martha Hirsch [Postcard]

Oskar Kokoschka: Peter Altenburg [Postcard]

Oskar Kokoschka: Wilhelm Köhler [Postcard]

Oskar Kokoschka: Cotton Picker [Postcard]

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Oskar Kokoschka: Early Portraits from Vienna and Berlin 1909-1914

Oskar Kokoschka: Das Moderne Bildnis 1909 bis 1914

Postcards of the Wiener Werkstätte: A Catalogue Raisonné

Kokoschka: The Untimely Modernist

Die träumenden Knaben/ Der weiße Tiertöter; Geschrieben und gezeichnet von Oskar Kokoschka

The Age of Insight

Oskar Kokoschka Exhibition Poster

Oskar Kokoschka: Martha Hirsch [Postcard]

Oskar Kokoschka: Peter Altenburg [Postcard]

Oskar Kokoschka: Wilhelm Köhler [Postcard]

Oskar Kokoschka: Cotton Picker [Postcard]

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