Egon Schiele 1890-1918: The Midnight Soul of the Artist
by Reinhard Steiner
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Vienna's controversial prodigy: Expressive nudes, strange movements Egon Schiele (1890-1918) 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 the style of Klimt, his mentor, 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 show more 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. This book gives a concise overview of the brief, brilliant career of Egon Schiele. About the Series: Each book in TASCHEN's Basic Art series features: a detailed chronological summary of the life and oeuvre of the artist, covering his or her cultural and historical importance a concise biography approximately 100 illustrations with explanatory captions show lessTags
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Met zijn radicale tekenstijl liep Egon Schiele voorop bij de ontwikkeling van het Weense expressionisme. Hij was ook één van de belangrijkste portretschilders van de twintigste eeuw. Hoofdstukken: Het zelf van de kunstenaar; "Ik ben door Klimt beïnvloed"; De figuur als drager van de expressie; De visionair-symbolische schilderijen; Landschappen van de ziel; Egon Schiele 1890-1918. Leven en werk. Ik bewonder zijn felle kleuren, harde lijnen en confronterende visie op de mens.
I'm going to resist listing all of the Egon Schiele Books I've read because really, the guy died at 28, there isn't too much to report about his career. All the books pretty much say the same thing. However, what little they have is enough to prove this guy was beyond his contemporaries. Excellent draftsman, superb eye for form (from a new perspective at that time period), his art is evocative and risqué. He lived 100 years ago and his art can still pass as modern as well as his hair style...no joke, check him out.
Peu de texte mais assez documenté.
La selection de dessins/peintures n'est pas en phase avec le texte, cependant.
La selection de dessins/peintures n'est pas en phase avec le texte, cependant.
Jun 16, 2008French
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Egon Schiele was een Oostenrijkse kunstenaar die vooral bekend is geworden door zijn vele zelfportretten en naaktportretten. In de Nazi-tijd vond men dit ontaarde kunst. Gelukkig is een deel van zijn werk bewaard gebleven, prachtig!
Jan 22, 2013Dutch
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- Egon Schiele 1890-1918: The Midnight Soul of the Artist
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- 2001
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- Egon Schiele
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- Just as there are particular words or phrases (such as décadence or fin de siècle) which seem to express the very essence of an entire era, of a certain society's wishes and desires, aims and preoccupations an... (show all)d guiding principles, so too there are key images in every artist's work that reveal his character and the wellspring of his creative impulses most clearly of all.
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- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Schiele too caught Spanish influenza; and three days after his wife, on 31 October 1918, he followed her to an early grave.
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