He was hospitalized several times in Vienna and Stockholm and was released 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 for a decade throughout Europe, North Africa and the Middle East. He then stayed for some time in the artistic district of Paris, but he never felt comfortable in this environment. Finally he returned to Vienna, where he completed Vienna, View from Wilhelminberg for the Vienna City Council. In 1934, Kokoschka moved to Prague after becoming alarmed by political developments in Germany and Austria. There he met Olda Pavlovska, who later became his wife, as well as Thomas Masaryk, the first president of the Czech Republic. In Prague he expressed his dissatisfaction 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 on behalf of humanitarian causes and launched a poster campaign in 1945. It featured a lithographed poster that read: "In memory of