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Oskar Kokoschka

1886 - 1980

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Oskar Kokoschka (1 March 1886 – 22 February 1980) was an Austrian artist, poet, playwright and teacher, best known for his intense expressionistic portraits and landscapes, as well as his theories on vision that influenced the Viennese Expressionist movement. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Oskar Kokoschka is the 93rd most popular painter, the 67th most popular biography from Austria (down from 58th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Austrian Painter.

Oskar Kokoschka was an Austrian artist who is most famous for his paintings of people.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Oskar Kokoschka ranks 93 out of 2,023. Before him are Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, François Boucher, Duccio, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Cimabue, and Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun. After him are Honoré Daumier, Paolo Uccello, Vittore Carpaccio, Paul Signac, Sofonisba Anguissola, and Claude Lorrain.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1886, Oskar Kokoschka ranks 8. Before him are David Ben-Gurion, Alfonso XIII of Spain, Diego Rivera, Robert Schuman, Robert Robinson, and Manne Siegbahn. After him are Béla Kun, Jean Arp, Sergey Kirov, Mir Osman Ali Khan, Roman von Ungern-Sternberg, and Karl von Frisch. Among people deceased in 1980, Oskar Kokoschka ranks 12. Before him are Alfred Hitchcock, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Erich Fromm, Roland Barthes, Steve McQueen, and Bon Scott. After him are Jesse Owens, Colonel Sanders, Henry Miller, Joe Dassin, Alexei Kosygin, and William Howard Stein.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Oskar Kokoschka ranks 67 out of 1,424. Before him are Archduke Franz Karl of Austria (1802), Otto Skorzeny (1908), Róbert Bárány (1876), Prince Louis of Battenberg (1854), Amon Göth (1908), and Christian Doppler (1803). After him are Ernst Kaltenbrunner (1903), Victor Francis Hess (1883), Archduke Otto of Austria (1865), Martin Buber (1878), Richard Adolf Zsigmondy (1865), and Kurt Waldheim (1918).

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Among PAINTERS In Austria

Among painters born in Austria, Oskar Kokoschka ranks 3. Before him are Gustav Klimt (1862), and Egon Schiele (1890). After him are Angela Hitler (1883), Koloman Moser (1868), Hans Makart (1840), Peter Fendi (1796), Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller (1793), Raoul Hausmann (1886), Friedrich von Amerling (1803), Moritz von Schwind (1804), and Peter Johann Nepomuk Geiger (1805).

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