“Focus: Oksar Kokoschka” at the Neue Galerie comes right on time.
The Viennese Expressionist, who died in 1980 at the age of 94, was one of the shattered visionaries of early-20th-century Modernism—a man on the edge. Underappreciated since his death, despite some big-bucks acquisitions of Expressionist masters and periodic museum treatment (a 2002 show Read More
If your taste in the visual arts tends to favor decorative excess, symbolist fantasy and a superabundance of ornamental detail, then the exhibition to visit and revisit this winter is a decorative-arts extravaganza called Dagobert Peche and the Wiener Werkstätte at the Neue Galerie New York. Don’t be put off if you’ve never heard of Read More
The early portraits of the Austrian painter Oskar Kokoschka (1886-1980), which are currently the subject of a mesmerizing exhibition at the Neue Galerie New York, have long been recognized as one of the stellar achievements of the Viennese avant-garde that flourished in the years immediately preceding the First World War. Yet the young Kokoschka, who Read More
Of the many reasons why everyone-everyone, that is, with a keen interest in art, architecture and design-will want to visit and revisit the Neue Galerie New York, the city’s new museum devoted to early 20th-century German and Austrian art, not the least is the building itself, at 1048 Fifth Avenue (at the corner of 86th Read More
Although the Austrian-born painter Oskar Kokoschka
(1886-1980) spent much of his very long life as a tireless traveler and expatriate, his work will forever be
associated with the Viennese avant-garde in the early years of the 20th
century. It was in Vienna in the era of Sigmund Freud, Hugo von Hofmannsthal,
Arnold Schönberg, Adolph Loos Read More
