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The Expressionist poet and playwright Walter Hasenclever was born in Aachen in 1890. After studies at universities in Oxford, Lausanne, and Leipzig, his literary carer started with the publication of his poems in 1910, followed by his first successful Expressionist drama, “Der Sohn” in 1914. In 1917 he was presented with the Kleist Prize for his adaptation of Sophocles' “Antigone”. Hasenclever escaped Nazism by moving to Nice, France in 1934, but at the beginning of the war, he was interned as an enemy alien in Camp des Milles, where he committed suicide in 1940.

The Expressionist artist and author Oskar Kokoschka was born in Pöchlarn, Austria in 1886. Against the wishes of his father, Kokoschka applied for a scholarship at Vienna’s ‘Kunstgewerbeschule’ [Academy of Applied Art], which at the time was influenced by ‘Wiener Werkstätte’. In 1910, he moved to Berlin and became known for his expressionistic portraits and landscapes. Soon after, he started his passionate love affair with Alma Mahle, which never really ended, even when she got married to the architect Walter Gropius. Deemed by the Nazis a ‘degenerate artist’, Kokoschka escaped to Prague and eventually settled in England. Oskar Kokoschka died in Montreux, Switzerland in 1980.

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Walter Hasenclever / photograph of a lithograph by Oskar Kokoschka, Leo Baeck Institute, F 2475.