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Kunstlump refers to a debate in German culture, Germany in 1920 which arose after Oscar Kokoschka complained that violent confrontation which arose during the Kapp Putsch had damaged a painting in the Semper Gallery located in the Zwinger (Dresden), Zwinger. He argued that the value a painting by Peter Paul Rubens was of greater importance than the lives of people killed in the confrontation and suggested that battlefield, field of combat should be relocated to heathland. This elicited a sharp response from George Grosz and John Heartfield. Kokoschka's original appeal had appeared in over forty newspapers following the events of 15 March 1920 in Postplatz (Dresden), Postplatz, Dresden. In clashes between striking workers and soldiers involved in the Kapp Putsch, 59 people died with 150 wounded. However one bullet entered the gallery and damaged ''Bathsheba at the Fountain'', which Rubens had painted in 1635. Kokoschka had been appointed professor at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts ...
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Oscar Kokoschka
Oskar Kokoschka (1 March 1886 – 22 February 1980) was an Austrian artist, poet, playwright, and teacher best known for his intense expressionistic Expressionism is a modernist movement, initially in poetry and painting, originating in Northern Europe around the beginning of the 20th century. Its typical trait is to present the world solely from a subjective perspective, distorting it rad ... portraits and landscapes, as well as his theories on vision that influenced the Viennese Expressionist movement. Early life The second child of Gustav Josef Kokoschka, a Bohemian goldsmith, and Maria Romana Kokoschka (née Loidl), Oskar Kokoschka was born in Pöchlarn. He had a sister, Berta, born in 1889; a brother, Bohuslav, born in 1892; and an elder brother who died in infancy. Oskar had a strong belief in omens, spurred by a story of a fire breaking out in Pöchlarn shortly after his mother gave birth to him. The family's life was not easy, largely due to a lack of financial st ...
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