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Emil Kosa Jr

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Emil Jean Kosa, Jr. (1903 - 1968) was active/lived in California.  Emil Kosa Jr is known for Regional landscape, figure-nude and still life painting.

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Emil Kosa Jr. was born in Paris, France on November 28, 1903.  His father was a Czech artist.  He moved to the United States with his family at the age of four.

Kosa studied at the Prague Academy as a teenager and then at the California Art Institute in Los Angeles in 1927.  He returned to Paris later in 1927, and studied under Pierre Laurens at l'École des Beaux-Arts.  In 1928, he returned to Los Angeles and studied and later taught at Chouinard and the Otis Art Institutes.

Kosa spent the last 35 years of his life working for 20th Century Fox studios as a special effects artist.  In 1963 he won an Oscar for his work on Cleopatra. During this time Kosa, along with maintaining a studio-home in LA, decorated churches, theatres, and private homes and continued teaching in Laguna Beach, California.

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Keywords and Quick Facts for Emil Kosa Jr


   Keywords 
Exhibition By An Art School
  • The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Art Method
  • Easel Painting
  • Graphic Design, Printmaking, Lithography, Etching, Woodblocks
  • Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
Art MediaArt StyleArt SubjectGeography/Places Lived and/or Worked
  • California Before 1940
  • Hawaiian Islands and/or South Seas, Tahiti, Bali
  • Mexico and/or Central America
Art Association
  • American Watercolor Society, Painters in Watercolor
  • Audubon Society of Artists-
  • California Art Club-
  • California Watercolor Society
  • National Academy of Design, Elected Member
  • New York Water Color Club, Society-
Art Teacher
  • Jean Paul Laurens
Art School
  • Academie Julian, Paris, Student
  • Chouinard Art Institute, CalArts, Student
  • Chouinard Art Institute, CalArts, Teacher
  • Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris, Student
  • Otis Art Institute, (Otis College of Art & Design) Student
Chronology
  • Early 20th Century Before 1950
  • Late 20th Century After 1950
Art Collection
  • Gardena High School Collection (CA)
Added Description
  • Art Educator: Teaching, Scholarship, Workshops and/or Writing
  • Figure Specialty
  • Nude Figure Specialty
Exhibition/Expo: Regional/National/International
  • Panama Pacific Exhibition of 1915
Exhibition of Art Association
  • American Watercolor Society, Painters in Watercolor-
  • California Art Club
  • California Watercolor Society-
  • National Academy of Design, New York
Exhibition of Museum
  • Art Institute of Chicago
  • Carnegie Institute, International Exhibition
  • Corcoran Gallery and/or Art School, Washington DC
  • Metropolitan Museum of Art
  • Museum of Modern Art, New York
  • Whitney Biennial Museum of American Art
Exhibition of State Fair
  • Arizona State Fair

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