Salzburg: Verlag Galerie Welz, 1995. 228 pp.; 219 color ills., 36 b/w.

Adolf Loos, the great modernist architect and crucial first patron of the young Kokoschka, inscribed the portrait the artist had drawn of him in 1916 with the witty apercu, "This picture is a better likeness of me than I am of myself."(1) Most of the sitters for the early portraits in oils, many of which Loos himself had recruited, could not muster the same dispassionateness. Where Loos perceived expressionistic ...