Self-Portrait from Two Sides

• Oskar Kokoschka (1886–1980)
• 1923
• Color lithograph on paper
• Leopold Museum, Vienna

This self-portrait was made during Oskar Kokoschka’s time as a professor at the Dresden Academy. His method of putting observations from two sides together resembles the Cubist approach. The two sides likely represent his dual identity as an artist. After this painting was included in the Degenerate Art Exhibition and defamed by the Nationalist Socialist regime in 1937, Kokoschka left Austria to go into exile.