What is Oskar Kokoschka?
{{Infobox artist | name = Oskar Kokoschka | image = Oskar Kokoschka (1963) by Erling Mandelmann.jpg | caption = Oskar Kokoschka in 1963 | image_size = 200px | birth_name = Oskar Kokoschka | birth_date = 1 March 1886 | birth_place = [[Pöchlarn]], [[Austria]] | death_date = {{Death date and age|1980|02|22|1886|03|01|df=y}} | death_place = [[Montreux]], [[Switzerland]] | nationality = [[Austria]]n <br> [[British people|British]] | field = [[Painting]], [[poet]], [[playwright]] | training = | movement = [[Expressionism]] | works = }} '''Oskar Kokoschka''' (1 March [[1886]] – 22 February 1980) was an [[Austrian people|Austrian]] [[artist]], [[poet]] and [[playwright]]. He is best known for his intense [[Expressionism|expressionistic]] portraits and landscapes. Kokoschka's first jobs were postcards and drawings for children. In his early career he did portraits of [[Vienna|Viennese]] celebrities. He was in the Austrian army in [[World War I]] and was wounded. At the [[hospital]], the doctors said he was mentally unstable. He traveled across [[Europe]] and painted the landscape. [[File:PoechlarnKokoschkaHaus.jpg|thumb|right|The house in which Oskar Kokoschka was born in Pöchlarn (August 2006)]] Kokoschka had an affair with [[Alma Mahler]]. She stopped the relationship. He continued to love her his entire life. One of his greatest works ''[[The Bride of the Wind]]'' (''The Tempest''), is a tribute to her. His poem ''Allos Markar''<ref>Poem 1913 Translation.''Happiness is otherwise'' an anagram of Alma & Oskar),</ref> was about this relationship. Deemed a [[degenerate art|degenerate]] by the [[Nazism|Nazis]], Kokoschka left Austria in 1934 for [[Prague]]. In 1938, when the Czechs were coming for [[Wehrmacht]], he fled to the [[United Kingdom]]. He stayed there during the war. Kokoschka became a British citizen in 1946. In 1978 he got back Austrian citizenship. He traveled to the [[United States]] in 1947. Then he moved to [[Switzerland]]. He lived there the rest of