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Natter Tobias G.
Egon Schiele. The Complete Paintings 1909 1918
Egon Schiele. The Complete Paintings 1909 1918
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Binding: Hardcover
Description: After Egon Schiele (1890 - 1918) freed himself from the shadow of his mentor and role model Gustav Klimt he had just ten years to inscribe his signature style into the annals of modernity before the Spanish flu claimed his life. Being a child prodigy quite aware of his own genius and a passionate provocateur this didn t prove to be too big a challenge. His haggard overstretched figures drastic depiction of sexuality and self - portraits in which he staged himself with emaciated facial expressions bordering between brilliance and madness had none of the decorative quality of Klimt's hymns of love sexuality and yearning devotion. Instead Schiele's work spoke of a brutal honesty one that would upset and irreversibly change Viennese society. Although his works were later defamed as degenerate and for a time were almost forgotten altogether they influenced generations of artists from G nter Brus and Francis Bacon to Tracey Emin. Today his then - misunderstood oeuvre continues to fetch exorbitant prices on the international art market. Presented in a voluminous format that captures all of the intensity and emotional truth of his work Egon Schiele. The Complete Paintings 1909 1918 features 221 paintings and 146 drawings that retrace the fertile last decade of Schiele's life. With many pieces newly photographed for this edition these works are paired with excerpts from his countless writings and poems as well as essays introducing his life and oeuvre to situate the Austrian master in the context of European Expressionism and trace his extraordinary legacy.
Title: Egon Schiele. The Complete Paintings 1909 1918
Author(s): Natter Tobias G.
Publisher: Taschen Gmbh
Barcode: 9783836546126
Pages: 608 Pages
Publication Date: 5/12/2017
Category: Individual Artists, Art Monographs
Description: After Egon Schiele (1890 - 1918) freed himself from the shadow of his mentor and role model Gustav Klimt he had just ten years to inscribe his signature style into the annals of modernity before the Spanish flu claimed his life. Being a child prodigy quite aware of his own genius and a passionate provocateur this didn t prove to be too big a challenge. His haggard overstretched figures drastic depiction of sexuality and self - portraits in which he staged himself with emaciated facial expressions bordering between brilliance and madness had none of the decorative quality of Klimt's hymns of love sexuality and yearning devotion. Instead Schiele's work spoke of a brutal honesty one that would upset and irreversibly change Viennese society. Although his works were later defamed as degenerate and for a time were almost forgotten altogether they influenced generations of artists from G nter Brus and Francis Bacon to Tracey Emin. Today his then - misunderstood oeuvre continues to fetch exorbitant prices on the international art market. Presented in a voluminous format that captures all of the intensity and emotional truth of his work Egon Schiele. The Complete Paintings 1909 1918 features 221 paintings and 146 drawings that retrace the fertile last decade of Schiele's life. With many pieces newly photographed for this edition these works are paired with excerpts from his countless writings and poems as well as essays introducing his life and oeuvre to situate the Austrian master in the context of European Expressionism and trace his extraordinary legacy.
Title: Egon Schiele. The Complete Paintings 1909 1918
Author(s): Natter Tobias G.
Publisher: Taschen Gmbh
Barcode: 9783836546126
Pages: 608 Pages
Publication Date: 5/12/2017
Category: Individual Artists, Art Monographs