OK…

I’m going to go wrestle with my blankets for a while, before passing out from sheer exhaustion in 4 or 5 hours.  Tomorrow, I get the extreme pleasure of being put under and having a tube with a camera in it (oh, and isn’t there just a bit of irony in that?) shoved down my throat and into my upper gastro-intestinal tract.  I’ve been having terrible stomach pains lately and I guess the medical profession wants to cinemascope my innards in order to make certain some horrid creature isn’t hanging out down there and eating me alive from the inside out.  <Sigh>  The fun just never stops…

Oskar Kokoschka     Portrait of the Composer Anton Webern     1914

Oskar Kokoschka     Portrait of the Composer Anton Webern     1914

Oskar Kokoschka     The Architect Adolf Loos     1909

Oskar Kokoschka     The Architect Adolf Loos     1909

Oskar Kokoschka     Girl with Raised Hands     1908

Oskar Kokoschka     Girl with Raised Hands     1908

Oskar Kokoschka     Self-portrait of a Degenerate Artist     1937 This painting was done by Kokoschka after learning that his works were included in the Nazi&#8217;s notorious &#8220;Entartete Kunst&#8221; (Degenerate Art) Exhibits of modern artists of the Weimar era, prior to their destroying many of those same works of art.

Oskar Kokoschka     Self-portrait of a Degenerate Artist     1937

This painting was done by Kokoschka after learning that his works were included in the Nazi’s notorious “Entartete Kunst” (Degenerate Art) Exhibits of modern artists of the Weimar era, prior to their destroying many of those same works of art.

Oskar Kokoschka     Portrait of a Young Woman     c.1913

Oskar Kokoschka     Portrait of a Young Woman     c.1913

Hugo Erfurth     Painter and Writer Oskar Kokoschka, Berlin     1920 “My mind is the tomb of all those things which have ceased to be true&#8230; at last, nothing remains; all that is essential of them is their image within myself. The life goes out of them into that image, as in the lamp the oil is drawn through the wick to nourish the flame.” Oskar Kokoschka

Hugo Erfurth     Painter and Writer Oskar Kokoschka, Berlin     1920

“My mind is the tomb of all those things which have ceased to be true… at last, nothing remains; all that is essential of them is their image within myself. The life goes out of them into that image, as in the lamp the oil is drawn through the wick to nourish the flame.” Oskar Kokoschka

Otto Dix      The Photographer Hugo Erfurth, Berlin     1925

Otto Dix      The Photographer Hugo Erfurth, Berlin     1925

Madame d&#8217;Ora      Self-portrait, Paris     c.1925

Madame d’Ora      Self-portrait, Paris     c.1925

Erwin Blumenfeld      Self-portrait as Minotaur      1936

Erwin Blumenfeld      Self-portrait as Minotaur      1936