Author : Jean-Louis Gaillemin
Publisher : Harry N. Abrams
ISBN 13 : 9780810992610
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (926 download)
Book Synopsis Discoveries: Egon Schiele by : Jean-Louis Gaillemin
Download or read book Discoveries: Egon Schiele written by Jean-Louis Gaillemin and published by Harry N. Abrams. This book was released on 2006-12-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Egon Schiele (18901918) was one of the most popular and influential painters to emerge from turn-of-the-century Vienna. Before his premature death at 28, he managed to be thrown in prison on a morals charge and also to create a strongly erotic body of work, both deeply expressive drawings and sublimely beautiful paintings. This enfant terrible of pre-WWI Vienna worked in the shadows of Klimt and Freud, but he found his own voice, and his own nude body was his best model. Egon Schiele delves into both his controversial sexual themes and neglected aspects of Schieles art, notably his formal experiments and his later expressionistic portraits and allegorical paintingsworks that reveal much about the importance of his short career. Egon Schiele (18901918) was one of the most popular and influential painters to emerge from turn-of-the-century Vienna. Before his premature death at 28, he managed to be thrown in prison on a morals charge and also to create a strongly erotic body of work, both deeply expressive drawings and sublimely beautiful paintings. This enfant terrible of pre-WWI Vienna worked in the shadows of Klimt and Freud, but he found his own voice, and his own nude body was his best model. Egon Schiele delves into both his controversial sexual themes and neglected aspects of Schieles art, notably his formal experiments and his later expressionistic portraits and allegorical paintingsworks that reveal much about the importance of his short career.