Although the title of this impressive retrospective is confusing—Oskar Kokoschka's work cannot be reduced to the Fauvist artists of the first or second generation—, what the museum is celebrating is the rebel, the intellectual impervious to dogma, the humanist, the anti-fascist and the committed free-thinker.
Oskar Kokoschka (1886-1980), Self-Portrait, 1917, oil on canvas, 79 x 63 cm/31.1 x 24.8 in.
© Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal / photo Patrick Schwarz © Fondation Oskar Kokoschka / Adagp, Paris 2022