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Oskar Kokoschka

Iwar von Lücken

1919

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Prior to the onset of World War I, Oskar Kokoschka created turbulent and emotionally charged images whose immediacy of expression deviated significantly from the measured and ornate works of many of his contemporaries. In his works made after the war, he used many of the same expressionist techniques to create boldly psychological portraits of his family and friends. Kokoschka first met the avant-garde poet and war veteran Iwar von Lücken (1874–1935) while undergoing treatments for shell shock at a sanatorium in Dresden in 1917. With its detailed attention to the sitter’s drawn face and deep-set eyes, the work emphasizes the mind and spirit over the frail body of the intellectual figure. [Exhibition label, 2015]

  • Artist Oskar Kokoschka (Austrian, 1886–1980)
  • Title Iwar von Lücken
  • Date 1919
  • Medium Lithograph
  • Dimensions unframed | 31 5/8 x 22 in.
  • Credit line University purchase, 1965
  • Object number WU 4248

World War I: War of Images, Images of War
Getty Research Institute, 11/18/2014 - 04/19/2015
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis, 09/11/2015 - 01/04/2016
Musée Würth France Erstein, 09/27/2016 - 01/08/2017

Modern Art on Paper (European)
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis, 08/27/1999 - 12/05/1999

Inscription [LR:] Oskar Kokoschka [LL in pencil illegible letters:]

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