Oskar Kokoschka
An Artist's Life in Photographs
Edited by Bernadette Reinhold und Patrick Werkner
Info
- Edited by
Bernadette Reinhold und Patrick Werkner
- Verlag
Edition Angewandte: Ambra Birkhäuser
- ISBN
978-3-9904-3565-6
- mit Beiträgen von
Frauke Kreutler, Justina Schreiber, Gertrud Held, Bernadette Reinhold und Patrick Werkner
About this book
First comprehensive photo-biography
The photographic estate of Oskar and Olda Kokoschka comprises approximately 5.000 photographs. It contains portraits by renowned photographers, including Madame d’Ora (Dora Kallmus), Hugo Erfurth, Brassaï, George Platt Lynes, René Burri, Trude Fleischmann or Erich Lessing. Apart from artistically composed images, the estate also features numerous press photographs and astonishing snapshots. With its extensive commentary, this first photo-biography of Kokoschka provides an insight into the artist’s many-faceted work and eventful life. The publication offers a vivid record of the evolution of photography and a historico-cultural journey through the 20th century as reflected by the mirror of this extraordinary artist.
Unusual insights into the creative oeuvre and life of an extraordinary artist
An annotated documentation of the 5000 photographs in the artist’s estate