Natter Tobias G.
Egon Schiele. The Paintings. 40th Ed.
Egon Schiele. The Paintings. 40th Ed.
Books
Regular price
$36.77 USD
Regular price
Sale price
$36.77 USD
Unit price
per
Shipping calculated at checkout.
Couldn't load pickup availability
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 extreme 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. This monograph features the paintings and drawings that retrace the fertile last decade of Schiele's life. These works are accompanied by essays introducing his life and oeuvre situating the Austrian master in the context of European Expressionism and charting his extraordinary legacy.
Title: Egon Schiele. The Paintings. 40th Ed.
Author(s): Natter Tobias G.
Publisher: Taschen Gmbh
Barcode: 9783836581257
Pages: 512 Pages
Publication Date: 9/15/2020
Series: 40th Edition
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 extreme 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. This monograph features the paintings and drawings that retrace the fertile last decade of Schiele's life. These works are accompanied by essays introducing his life and oeuvre situating the Austrian master in the context of European Expressionism and charting his extraordinary legacy.
Title: Egon Schiele. The Paintings. 40th Ed.
Author(s): Natter Tobias G.
Publisher: Taschen Gmbh
Barcode: 9783836581257
Pages: 512 Pages
Publication Date: 9/15/2020
Series: 40th Edition
Category: Individual Artists, Art Monographs
