Artworks

Oskar Kokoschka

Austrian (1886–1980)

Ivar von Lücken, 1918

Lithograph

25 7/8 x 18 3/16 in. (65.8 x 46.2 cm)

The John L. and Roslyn Bakst Goldman Collection of German Expressionist Prints. Gift of the Goldmans and an anonymous donor, 2001

Himself a survivor of trauma during the First World War, Kokoschka's technique lent itself to psychologically probing portraits of his contemporaries in the avant garde art world. Von Lücken was a poet whose own work is largely forgotten, but whose appearance survives him in portraits by both Kokoschka and Otto Dix.