Oskar Kokoschka

Oskar Kokoschka was born 1 March 1886 in Pöchlarn, Austria, and died 22 February 1980 in Villeneuve, Switzerland.

He was a painter, printer and playwright who lived mostly in Vienna until he moved to Dresden in 1917, where he stayed until 1924, whereupon he travelled widely, returning to Vienna in 1931 and 1933.

He published in Der Sturm in 1909-10. All his works in public collections were confiscated as ‘degenerate art’ and he and his (later) wife moved to the UK in 1938.

He made Villeneuve, Lake Geneva, his permanent residence from 1953 but continued to travel.