Oskar Kokoschka
Austria (1886—1980)Kokoschka studied applied arts at the Kunstgewerbeschule at the heart of the Vienna Secession. He never received formal training in painting, but he got a job at the Wiener Werkstätte, working on postcards and children’s drawings. After WWI he continued to paint and in 1922 attended the International Congress of Progressive Artists. In 1934 he moved to Prague, where he met a group of expatriates who founded the Oskar-Kokoschka-Bund (OKB), although he never joined them. In 1938, following the Munich Agreement, he fled Prague and found asylum in Britain, spending the war years between London, Cornwall and Scotland. He travelled to the US and in 1953 settled in Switzerland, where he remained until his death.
