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Oskar Kokoschka (1886-1980), Double Portrait of Trudl, 1931, Austrian. Oil on canvas. 101 x 71.5 cm. Courtesy of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (http://www.mfa.org/), Boston, Massachusetts; Seth K. Sweetser Fund, 61.1138. Photograph © 2008 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

For the Austrian Expressionist painter and writer Oskar Kokoschka (1886-1980), the years of the Great War of 1914-1918 marked a decisive period both in his personal life and in his professional career. His three-year tempestuous love affair with Alma Mahler, widow of the composer Gustav Mahler and the major inspiration for Kokoschka's work, ended badly when Alma aborted their child. Meanwhile, Kokoschka, pacifist and humanitarian by nature and education, volunteered for military duty and was gravely wounded in 1915 while fighting at the Ukranian front. He spent months in a Swedish hospital recovering from severe head and chest injuries and later went to Dresden, where he became . . . [Full Text of this Article]

M. Therese Southgate, MD