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His work is generally regarded as expressionistic, emotional, intense, autobiographical, and highly sexual. His father was a railroad civil servant who died in 1905. It has a brief life of schiele and then chapters on various aspects of his work with titles like a birdseye view of the world and the theatre of the self, giving you. May 23, 2017 featuring over 140 masterpieces, this new book draws on the unsurpassed schiele collection of viennas leopold museum. See schieles unflinching eroticism like never before, this xlsized book features his full painting catalogue from 1909 to 1918, by taschen books. The artists oeuvrean estimated 3,000 workscan be viewed with the click of a mouse. The near 600 featured works reveal how the artist reveled in stylistic freedom and shock, abandoning classical figuration for a distorted and exaggerated physicality that rendered emotional and sexual truth. Dec 28, 2017 i think that the taschen verlag 25th anniversary book on the expressionist austrian sometimes viennese painter egon schiele 18901918 provides sumptuous reproductions of schiele paintings and drawings. The taschen basic art introduction to egon schiele, pioneer of austrian expressionism and daring portraiture. A new book by taschen offers a sumptuous tour of his desperate life. This visually stunning collection of landscape paintings and drawings by egon schiele brings to light a littleknown aspect of this famous painters oeuvre, proving that his mastery extends beyond his radical renditions of the human figure and revealing themes that appeared throughout his lifes work. Born in 1890, schiele was part of an austrian generation for whom the.
Online shopping for schiele, egon from a great selection at books store. Naked truth radical and allrevealing figures with his graphic style, figural distortion, and defiance of conventional standards of beauty, egon schiele 18901918 was a pioneer of austrian expressionism and one of the most startling portrait painters of the 20th century. A great innovator of modern figure painting, egon schiele is known for creating erotic and deeply psychological portraits, on many occasions using himself as the subject. In this expansive xxlformat book, we survey the complete catalogue of schiele paintings from his most innovative and prolific decade between 1909 and 1918. Over the course of his short life, austrian artist egon schiele 18901918 blazed a turbulent expressionist trail. Complete paintings, 19081918 by taschen gmbh hardback, 2017 at the best online prices at. Austrian painting and drawing from 1900 to 1930 from the leopold collection, vienna 22jun1989.
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