Painter, muralist, lithographer.  Born in Paris, France on November 28, 1903.  Kosa moved to the U.S. with his family at age four.  Art studies were begun as a teenager at the Prague Academy and continued at the California Art Institute in Los Angeles (1927) and Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris (1927-28) under Kupka and Laurens.  Upon his return to the U.S. , he studied and taught at Chouinard and Otis Art Institutes in Los Angeles.  

During the last 35 years of his life he was a special effects artist for 20th Century Fox Studios and in 1963 won an Oscar for his work on Cleopatra.  While maintaining a studio-home in Los Angeles, Kosa decorated churches, theaters and private homes and often taught in nearby Laguna Beach.  His ouevre includes portraits, seascapes, landscapes, figures and florals in oil and watercolor.  

Exhibited:  Golden Gate International Exposition, 1939;  Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1940;  Biltmore Salon, Los Angeles, 1941;  Art Institute of Chicago, National Academy of Design; Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art; Corcoran Gallery of Art; Washington DC;  Carnegie Institute;  MM; Denver Museum;  Frye Museum;  and many others nationally.

Works held:  National Academy of Design, California State Library; Santa Barbara Museum;  Los Angeles County Museum of Art;  Boston Museum of Fine Art;  Springfield (MA) Museum;  Washington State College;  Dover  (DE) High School;  San Diego Museum;  Cranbrook Academy;  Mormon Church, Salt Lake City, Utah.

(Source: Hughes, Edan Milton, "Artists in California: 1786-1940," San Francisco: Hughes Publishing Company, 1989.)