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In 1932, Kokoschka once again showed his paintings in Venice at the Biennale, but now it has been met here is ambiguous. Mussolini made it clear she does not like art Kokoschka, and pro-fascist press in Germany made a number of attacks on the artist. By 1933, his finances depleted, and he left Paris and moved to Vienna, to be closer to his mother. He felt uncomfortable in a city ruled by a fascist administration Chancellor Dollfassa, and after my mother died that year, went to Prague and took Czech citizenship. The Austrian government has tried to return the artist, offering him leadership of the school of applied arts. In 1937 it was retrospective exhibition at the Austrian Museum for Art and Industry, at the same time, more than four hundred of his works were removed from German museums. In Prague, he met Olga, Pavlovsk, which later became his wife. At this time the war began in Spain, and Kokoschka warmly supported the Republicans.

      The Munich Agreement in 1938 made Prague safe haven. In September, Kokoschka went to England. It was safe, the same in England, his art was well known. However, the couple were desperately poor, in 1939 they settled where it was cheaper - in Cornwall. Oscar painted local landscapes in watercolor, and Olga was selling cakes in the store, to somehow make ends meet. The following year, they moved to London, as Kokoschka was convinced that the neighbors were suspicious of him. But London has crushed him: "What should I do in this hole (as he called his London apartment)?" I must think of new subjects for my paintings. When spring comes, I feel like a migratory bird, I want to leave the city and draw something something simple, such as grasshoppers. When I go back to the city, landscapes are transformed into the political picture. suffers from heart pain, but I can not get rid of it. "

      Wealth Kokoschka improved after the war. In 1945 he received a symbolic prize in a broken war Vienna: exhibition, which, apart from his paintings were works by Klimt and Schiele, by the time both of them were no longer alive. In 1947 there was a large retrospective exhibition at the Kunsthalle in Bern, and in 1952 his work was devoted to the 26-th Biennale in Venice. Kokoschka became a British citizen in 1947, but he wanted to remain in the country, where he felt uncomfortable. In 1953 he headed the International Summer Academy of Fine Arts in Salzburg, and thus restored the relationship with Austria, where he began his career, and in the same year he settled on one of the resorts of Lake Geneva. Now he was a very famous artist, but he kept aloof from the political and public life, so his death in 1980 in the resort of Montreux was quite noticeable.

      In the work of Kokoschka clearly traces the evolution of style and interests. Before the First World War, he painted mainly portraits, which are remarkable depth of penetration into the inner world of the model. Style artists of this period is characterized by the fine interpretation of the forms and freedom from descriptive realism. Gradually, however, in his manner became more interested in techniques of painting. But retain a subtle perception of the model. In 1920 Kokoschka was one of the most gifted of the German Expressionists. During this period he turned to the landscape that became his favorite genre. Introvert character of his early works, now lost jobs, which drew impetus from the outside, they used bold plastic natural forms, fashioned paste-like brush strokes in bright colors. During the Second World War in the works of Kokoschka lull, but then followed the work was fully expressiveness and much more subtle in color and pattern.

In the text of Edward Luce-Smith