Publisher's Synopsis
In 1918, artist Oskar Kokoschka--crippled in World War I, dispossed, and severely depressed over a failed love affair with his muse, Alma Mahler--in Dresden, where he finds refuge in the home of a patron and a new love in the arms of a servant girl, Hulda, but the artist's demons and erotic obsessions could precipitate a tragedy for them both. Repr