Tigon (cross between lion and tiger) 1926 Oscar Kokoschka may have identified with this animal, painted in Regent's Park Zoo in London. Some of the artist's Viennese contemporaries called him the 'Oberwidling'- the 'savage'. The Exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in Paris refers to him as a 'fauve' (wild beast). When it moves to the Guggenheim in Bilbao in March 2023, the title will change to 'enfant terrible'. Kokoschka expressed his wild side when he shaved off his hair in 1909 to look like a prisoner: Photo of Oskar Kokoschka with shaved head 1909, by Wenzel Weis Born in 1886 in Pöchlarn, Austria, of a Bohemian goldsmith father and an Austrian mother, Oskar's early days were spent in Vienna, where he studied from 1904 to 1909. He chose the Wiener Werkstätte (Viennese Workshops) in which to do his training- the Artisan School, rather than the Viennese Academy of Fine Arts. Young girl standing among vines 1908 lithography He was a pa...