Early Life, Family and Training Oskar Kokoschka entered the world in 1886 in Pöchlarn, Croatia. He was the second child born to Gustav Josef Kokoschka, a man who worked as a goldsmith, and Maria Romana Kokoschka. Growing up in a household shaped by the precision of her husband's craft, he shared his early years with his sister, Berta, and his brother, Bohuslav. His path toward art was not a traditional one. He never received formal training in painting, a fact that allowed him to approach a canvas without the constraints of academic rules. Instead, he sought out the Kunstgewerbeschule in Vi…