Oskar Kokoschka was born on March 1, 1886 in Pöchlarn in Austria. He was an Austrian painter and writer as well as one of the main exponents of Expressionism. Oskar Kokoschka, had begun to paint and draw at the age of fourteen and his training took place in the environment of the Viennese Secession, in direct contact with Klimt, who influenced his technique.
Not only a painter, Oscar Kokoschka, who had a multifaceted artistic soul, creates postcards, fans and other decorative objects. He made his way as a writer with the play "Assassin, Hope of Women", considered the first opera of Expressionist theater. The painter's mental health continued to torment the painter who intensified his activity as an engraver and painter by creating portraits, mythological subjects and many landscapes depicting foreign locations. His plays, poems and prose are significant for their psychological intuition and stylistic audacity. He then died on February 22, 1980 in Villeneuve in Switzerland.
