Oskar Kokoschka.

... Oskar Kokoschka Oskar Kokoschka was the third in the great trio of Viennese artists. This trio also included the great Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele. Kokoschka, however, is the one whose reputation is currently hardest to assess. He was born at Pochlarn on the Danube on March 1, 1886. His father was Czech and came from a well-known family of Prague goldsmiths. He was rather work-shy and Kokoschka later said of him, "From him I learned to endure poverty rather than work slavishly at distasteful work." His mother came from the mountain region of Styria in Austria and claimed to have second sight. Oskar was the second of their four sons and as a child, he moved with his family to Vienna. As a boy, Kokoschka was not particularly attracted to art. He wanted to study chemistry, but was recommended for a scholarship at the Vienna School of Arts and

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