"Egon Schiele (1890-1918) is one of the great Expressionist painters. He was taught by Gustav Klimt, and at a very early age, like his Viennese Secession predecessors broke with the traditions of official Austrian art. His numerous self portraits and nude models remained consistent throughout his career in keeping with his erotic, sensual and tormented visions of art. The paintings and text included in this book bring the extraordinary talent of this artist who, sadly, died of Spanish influenza at the age of 28 in Vienna."--Back cover

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Best of : Egon Schiele

Selsdon, Esther, Zwingerberger, Jeanette

Zwingenberger, Jeanette, Selsdon, Esther

Esther Selsdon; Jeanette Zwingenberger

Jeanette Zwingenberger; Esther Selsdon

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Selsdon, Esther(Author)

Sirrocco-Parkstone International

Sirrocco Publishing Ltd

Parkstone Press Ltd

Confidential Concepts, Inc., New York, USA, 2011

United Kingdom and Ireland, United Kingdom

2nd ed., New York, New York State, 2011

Great Masters, 1st ed, New York, 2005

Great masters, 2nd ed, New York, 2005

New York, NY, USA, 2011

Great Masters, 2012

Great Masters, 2011

2011-06-01

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Egon Schiele’s work is so distinctive that it resists categorisation. Admitted to the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts at just sixteen, he was an extraordinarily precocious artist, whose consummate skill in the manipulation of line, above all, lent a taut expressivity to all his work. Profoundly convinced of his own significance as an artist, Schiele achieved more in his abruptly curtailed youth than many other artists achieved in a full lifetime. His roots were in the Jugendstil of the Viennese Secession movement. Like a whole generation, he came under the overwhelming influence of Vienna’s most charismatic and celebrated artist, Gustav Klimt. In turn, Klimt recognised Schiele’s outstanding talent and supported the young artist, who within just a couple of years, was already breaking away from his mentor’s decorative sensuality. Beginning with an intense period of creativity around 1910, Schiele embarked on an unflinching exposé of the human form – not the least his own – so penetrating that it is clear he was examining an anatomy more psychological, spiritual and emotional than physical. He painted many townscapes, landscapes, formal portraits and allegorical subjects, but it was his extremely candid works on paper, which are sometimes overtly erotic, together with his penchant for using under-age models that made Schiele vulnerable to censorious morality. In 1912, he was imprisoned on suspicion of a series of offences including kidnapping, rape and public immorality. The most serious charges (all but that of public immorality) were dropped, but Schiele spent around three despairing weeks in prison. Expressionist circles in Germany gave a lukewarm reception to Schiele’s work. His compatriot, Kokoschka, fared much better there. While he admired the Munich artists of Der Blaue Reiter, for example, they rebuffed him. Later, during the First World War, his work became better known and in 1916 he was featured in an issue of the left-wing, Berlin-based Expressionist magazine Die Aktion. Schiele was an acquired taste. From an early stage he was regarded as a genius. This won him the support of a small group of long-suffering collectors and admirers but, nonetheless, for several years of his life his finances were precarious. He was often in debt and sometimes he was forced to use cheap materials, painting on brown wrapping paper or cardboard instead of artists’ paper or canvas. It was only in 1918 that he enjoyed his first substantial public success in Vienna. Tragically, a short time later, he and his wife Edith were struck down by the massive influenza epidemic of 1918 that had just killed Klimt and millions of other victims, and they died within days of one another. Schiele was just twenty-eight years old.
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Contents 5
His Life 7
His Work 69
SUNFLOWER I 71
PORTRAIT OF THE PAINTER 72
PORTRAIT OF OTTO WAGNER 75
SEATED NUDE GIRL 76
SEATED FEMALE NUDE WITH RAISED RIGHT ARM 79
KNEELING GIRL IN ORANGE-RED DRESS 80
THE DEAD MOTHER I 83
SCHIELE DRAWING A NUDE MODEL 84
FEMALE NUDE 87
MOTHER AND CHILD 88
RECLINING GIRL IN 91
PORTRAIT OF THE PUBLISHER 92
THE PAINTER MAX OPPENHEIMER, 95
PORTRAIT OF ARTHUR ROESSLER 96
SEATED MALE NUDE (SELF-PORTRAIT) 99
NEWBORN BABY 100
THE POET 103
TWO LITTLE GIRLS 104
GROUP OF THREE GIRLS 107
THE DANCER MOA 108
MOA 111
OBSERVED IN A DREAM 112
TWO GIRLS (LOVERS) 115
SEATED GIRL, FACING FRONT 116
AUTUMN TREES 119
PROCESSION 120
PROPHETS (DOUBLE SELF-PORTRAIT) 123
AGONY 124
HINDERING THE ARTIST IS A CRIME, 127
AUTUMN SUN I (SUNRISE) 128
CARDINAL AND NUN (CARESS) 131
SELF-PORTRAIT WITH 132
PORTRAIT OF WALLY (VALERIE NEUZIL) 135
PORTRAIT OF IDA ROESSLER 136
HOLY FAMILY 139
WOMAN IN BLACK STOCKINGS 140
DOUBLE PORTRAIT (CHIEF INSPECTOR 143
SEATED FEMALE NUDE, 144
BLIND MOTHER 147
YOUNG MOTHER 148
NUDE WITH GREEN TURBAN 151
TWO GIRLS (LOVERS) 152
PORTRAIT OF FRIEDERIKE 155
SELF-PORTRAIT AS 156
TWO GIRLS LYING ENTWINED 159
COITUS 160
KRUMAU TOWN CRESCENT 163
DECAYING MILL 164
DEATH AND MAIDEN 167
PORTRAIT OF AN OLD MAN 168
PORTRAIT OF HEINRICH BENESCH 171
SEATED WOMAN IN UNDERWEAR, 172
EMBRACE (LOVERS II) 175
SITTING WOMAN WITH BENT KNEE 176
MOTHER WITH TWO CHILDREN III 179
RECLINING FEMALE NUDE 180
FOUR TREES 183
EDGE OF TOWN 184
PORTRAIT OF THE PAINTER 187
THE FRIENDS (ROUND TABLE), SMALL 188
THE FAMILY (SQUATTING COUPLE) 191
Biography 192
Index of Works 194

Egon Schiele (1890-1918) is one of the great Expressionist painters. He was taught by Gustav Klimt and, at a very early age, like his Viennese Secession predecessors, broke with the traditions of official Austrian art. His numerous self-portraits and nude models remained consistent throughout his career and reflected his erotic, sensual and tormented vision of art. This title presents a biography of the artist and a commentary that enable us to learn about his controversial works. Mega Square's small and practical format is bound to make it a perfect gift

Egon Schiele (1890-1918) ist einer der grosen Maler des Expressionismus. Von Gustav Klimt unterrichtet brach er, wie seine Vorgänger der Wiener Secession, schon früh mit den Traditionen österreichischer Kunst. In seinen zahlreichen Selbstporträts und Aktmalereien bewahrte Schiele stets seine erotische und sinnliche, aber auch qualvolle Kunstvorstellung. Die Texte und Bilder in dieser Great Masters-Ausgabe zeigen das ausergewöhnliche Talent eines Künstlers, der unglücklicherweise bereits im Alter von 28 Jahren an Krankheit verstarb.

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