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Emil Kosa Jr

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.

The following is from Martin Wolpert, Los Angeles, California:

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.

Kosa exhibited at Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 1   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 6956 characters.]  Artist bio

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