100th birthday - Austria / II. Republic of Austria 1986 - 4 Shilling

The painter, graphic artist and writer Oskar Kokoschka is one of the most important representatives of Expressionism. The brand motif shows a section from the work of the artist "Self-portrait with a statuette" from the year 1966. Throughout his life, the artist began his own inner mood with self-portraits, which changed through the phases of his life. Oskar Kokoschka was born on 1 March 1886 in Pöchlarn. In 1919 he received a professorship in Dresden. His paintings were shown in 1922 at the Venice Biennale. In 1931 he returned to Vienna. In 1934, after the death of his mother, he moved to Prague. The art dictatorship of the Third Reich called him a degenerate artist and 417 of his works were confiscated in German museums. Kokoschka emigrated to England. In 1953 he realized his "School of Seeing" in Salzburg. The brand image arouses the fascinating idea of ​​an exhibition of all his self-portraits. His visionary, intense color language, which the viewer finds in his portraits, landscapes and cityscapes, documents an art that was borne by life. Oskar Kokoschka died on February 22, 1980 in Montreux.