He was hospitalized several times in both Vienna and Stockholm and was discharged from military service in 1916. In 1919 he was appointed professor at the Dresden Academy and when he left the Academy in 1924 he traveled a decade across Europe, North Africa and the Middle East. He then stayed for some time in the artistic district of Paris, but never felt at ease in that environment. Eventually, he returned to Vienna, where he completed Vienna, View From the Wilhelminberg for the Vienna City Council. In 1934, Kokoschka moved to Prague after being alarmed by political developments in Germany and Austria. There he met Olda Pavlovska, who would later become his wife, and also Thomas Masaryk, the first president of the Czech Republic. In Prague he expressed his disappointment with the Nazi regime in Germany; and as a result, his work was considered "degenerate art" by the Nazis. When Germany annexed Austria in 1938 and occupied Czechoslovakia the same year, Kokoschka fled to England with Olda. Kokoschka sold and donated many of his works to humanitarian causes and launched a poster campaign in 1945. It featured a lithographed poster that read: "In memory of