« Die Bedeutung der Archäologie für Kokoschkas humanistisches Erziehungsprogramm »
Publisher
Munich: Hirmer
Date issued
2010
In
Oskar Kokoschkas Antike. Eine europäische Vision der Moderne
From page
143
To page
154
Subjects
Kokoschka archeology contact with famous archaeologists
Abstract
Article for the catalogue of an exhibition organized by the Stiftung Moritzburg - Kunstmuseum of the Land Sachsen-Anhalt.
Kokoschka’s artistic and literary oeuvre is testament to an intensive, lifelong engagement with Classical Antiquity. His earliest drama, Mörder, Hoffnung der Frauen (Murderer, hope of women, 1909) includes dramatic elements from the Oresteia by Aeschylus and from Kleist’s Penthesilea. In his autobiography, published in 1971, Kokoschka wrote, looking back, that “Greece is for all of us an ideal like the Garden of Eden. Why? Perhaps because it was there that man realised best what it is to be human”.
Kokoschka’s artistic and literary oeuvre is testament to an intensive, lifelong engagement with Classical Antiquity. His earliest drama, Mörder, Hoffnung der Frauen (Murderer, hope of women, 1909) includes dramatic elements from the Oresteia by Aeschylus and from Kleist’s Penthesilea. In his autobiography, published in 1971, Kokoschka wrote, looking back, that “Greece is for all of us an ideal like the Garden of Eden. Why? Perhaps because it was there that man realised best what it is to be human”.
Publication type
book part