Oskar Kokoschka: Linz Landscape

Oskar Kokoschka was commissioned to paint a picture of the city of Linz in 1955. Following a longer search, he found the right perspective on the hill Pfenningberg and completed this large format portrait of Linz. As a friend of the museum founder Wolfgang Gurlitt and his assistant and later successor Walter Kasten, the expressionist painter often visited Linz. It was also in Linz, in the predecessor institution of Lentos, the New Gallery of the City of Linz, where Kokoschka's first major exhibition after World War II took place in Austria.