Jun 12, 2016
In war-torn days they met
when they did not know
what to do with life
which brought such love they could neither take nor hide
Her youth going to seed,
eyes bulging with sleeplessness,
and her hands...
instead of let them hang by her side
she gathered them and held close.
"One day i will come," said he,
"with heaps of currency notes
and a dream-boat; wait for me."
And she said okay.
Years went by and one day she died.
They put her in the coffin,
her hands held close,
one upon the other
as on the day she mutely said,
"Okay, I shall wait."
when they did not know
what to do with life
which brought such love they could neither take nor hide
Her youth going to seed,
eyes bulging with sleeplessness,
and her hands...
instead of let them hang by her side
she gathered them and held close.
"One day i will come," said he,
"with heaps of currency notes
and a dream-boat; wait for me."
And she said okay.
Years went by and one day she died.
They put her in the coffin,
her hands held close,
one upon the other
as on the day she mutely said,
"Okay, I shall wait."
Oskar Kokoschka
Martha Hirsch (1909)
Oskar Kokoschka 1886-1980
Expressionist painter, draughtsman and lithographer of portraits, landscapes and figure subjects; author of several plays and other writings. Born at Pöchlarn, Austria, of Czech and Austrian parentage. Studied at the Vienna School of Arts and Crafts 1905-9. His early paintings and plays aroused intense antagonism, but he was befriended by Adolf Loos, with whose help he received his first commissions for portraits; also contributed drawings to the Berlin periodical Der Sturm. First one-man exhibition at the Galerie Paul Cassirer, Berlin, 1910. Badly wounded in 1915 serving on the Eastern Front. Moved in 1917 to Dresden and taught at the Dresden Academy 1919-24. From 1924 period of travel in Europe and North Africa; series of views of great European cities. After the rise of the Nazis, whom he always outspokenly opposed, he moved in 1934 to Prague, then in 1938 to England. Became a British subject in 1947. From 1953 lived mainly at Villeneuve in Switzerland. Ran a summer painting school, the Schule des Sehens (School of Seeing) at Salzburg 1953-63; designed sets and costumes for the theatre and the opera. His autobiography Mein Leben was published in 1971. Died in Montreux.
Published in:
Ronald Alley, Catalogue of the Tate Gallery's Collection of Modern Art other than Works by British Artists, Tate Gallery and Sotheby Parke-Bernet, London 1981, p.391
~ http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/oskar-kokoschka-1430
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Martha Hirsch (1909)
Oskar Kokoschka 1886-1980
Expressionist painter, draughtsman and lithographer of portraits, landscapes and figure subjects; author of several plays and other writings. Born at Pöchlarn, Austria, of Czech and Austrian parentage. Studied at the Vienna School of Arts and Crafts 1905-9. His early paintings and plays aroused intense antagonism, but he was befriended by Adolf Loos, with whose help he received his first commissions for portraits; also contributed drawings to the Berlin periodical Der Sturm. First one-man exhibition at the Galerie Paul Cassirer, Berlin, 1910. Badly wounded in 1915 serving on the Eastern Front. Moved in 1917 to Dresden and taught at the Dresden Academy 1919-24. From 1924 period of travel in Europe and North Africa; series of views of great European cities. After the rise of the Nazis, whom he always outspokenly opposed, he moved in 1934 to Prague, then in 1938 to England. Became a British subject in 1947. From 1953 lived mainly at Villeneuve in Switzerland. Ran a summer painting school, the Schule des Sehens (School of Seeing) at Salzburg 1953-63; designed sets and costumes for the theatre and the opera. His autobiography Mein Leben was published in 1971. Died in Montreux.
Published in:
Ronald Alley, Catalogue of the Tate Gallery's Collection of Modern Art other than Works by British Artists, Tate Gallery and Sotheby Parke-Bernet, London 1981, p.391
~ http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/oskar-kokoschka-1430
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image from http://www.wikiart.org/en/oskar-kokoschka
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#Art #OskarKokoschka
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