Egon Schiele, 1890-1918: The Midnight Soul of the Artist
Egon Schiele (1890-1918) - along with Oskar Kokoschka - is the painter who had the most long-lasting influence on the Vienna art scene after the great era of Klimt came to a close. After a short flirtation with Klimt's style, Schiele soon questioned the aesthetic orientation to the beautiful...
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Egon Schiele (1890-1918) - along with Oskar Kokoschka - is the painter who had the most long-lasting influence on the Vienna art scene after the great era of Klimt came to a close. After a short flirtation with Klimt's style, Schiele soon questioned the aesthetic orientation to the beautiful surface of the Viennese Art Nouveau with his rough and not easily accessible paintings. Many contemporaries found Schiele's expressive nudes and self-portraits, with their strange movements and morbid colours, to be ugly and even morally objectionable--criticism which culminated in criminalizing the painter as 'obscene' and resulted in 1912 in an indictment and short jail sentence. However, not even his harshest critics could dispute the artist's extraordinary drawing talent.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9783822863275 (3822863270)
Publish date: May 17th 2000
Publisher: Taschen
Pages no: 96
Edition language: English
The text is turgid, and I had no interest in reading it. The pictures are wonderful, and include many that I had never seen and which are not (apparently) very commonly discussed. This one, in particular, Child with Nimbus in a Meadow of Flowers (1909).... reminds me of HiroshimaKind mit Nimbus auf ...