L’oeil immuable. Divers With courage

With courage

Sonderabdruck aus der Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft

Marriage alliances concluded with Caesar or Pompey or between their amici 3

and as if from a single arrival

the temples dedicated to the deities have something surprising about them

L’oeil immuable. Divers With courageIn France, Kokoschka's works are mainly remembered for his Viennese paintings from the 1910s, those that link him to the Secession, to Klimt and to Schiele in the "joyous apocalypse" of the Austro Hungarian Empire. This is to risk ignoring the fact that this soon to be exiled painter felt throughout his life much closer to Greek and Baroque art, which he believed to be borderless, than to all the occasional movements and deadly labels of criticism;