Egon Schiele

Edited by Christian Bauer This book highlights the intimate relationship between landscape and portraiture in the work of the Austrian Expressionist artist Egon Schiele (1890-1918).Plants, natural environments, and townscapes determine the spaces Egon Schiele created in his paintings, and they also reflect the rich symbolism he employed that is centered around the human condition. In particular, plants are often endowed with an allegorical meaning. Flowers and trees assume the role of portrait subjects and convey an almost human appearance. Schiele’s landscapes always represent more than their apparent subject matter. His portrayal of nature and his rendering of towns and trees epitomize the life cycle and the human condition. This catalogue, accompanying a spectacular exhibition on view at the Neue Galerie New York, will investigate the importance of landscape in the artist’s work. The contributing authors are internationally distinguished experts on Schiele’s landscapes and representatives of museums and universities in Europe and the United States. Hardcover220 pagesPrestel, 20249.25 x 11.25 inchesISBN 9783791377483Egon Schiele, Neue Galerie Exhibition Catalogue

Egon Schiele: Living Landscapes Exhibition Catalogue

Introducing our exquisite set of 8 Egon Schiele notecards, drawn from the Neue Galerie's own holdings as well as other esteemed collections. Each card showcases a timeless masterpiece by the renowned Austrian artist, capturing the essence of his provocative and emotionally charged canvases. Egon Schiele (1890-1918) is one of the most important figures in twentieth-century art. He is celebrated for his singular style of draftsmanship, unusual use of color, and physically raw, expressive style. These notecards are printed on high-quality cardstock with a matte finish, ensuring durability and a luxurious feel. They are blank inside, perfect for personal messages or for framing as miniature pieces of art. Images include:River Landscape with Two Trees, 1913Town among Greenery (The Old City III), 1917.Four Trees, 1917Yellow Town (detail), 1914Portrait of the Artist's Wife Edith Schiele, 1917-18Dr. Hugo Koller, 1918Current of Youth (Danaë), 1909Self-Portrait with Peacock Waistcoat, Standing, 1911 Notecard Box Set:16 square notecards and envelopes2 each of 8 images6 x 6 inches

Egon Schiele Notecard Set

Edited by Alessandra CominiThis book accompanies a major exhibition devoted to portraits created by Austrian artist Egon Schiele, whose figurative work exhibits intense emotion and technical brilliance.Egon Schiele (1890-1918) was one of the greatest artists of the twentieth century. A superb draftsman and colorist, he produced images of startling emotional power. Following the lead of his mentor, Gustav Klimt, Schiele created figurative works of uncanny intimacy and brought a new openness to the art of his time. Schiele’s premature death at the age of 28 has added a mythic quality to his artistic achievements.Egon Schiele: Portraits focuses on five groupings of the artist's work: family and academy, fellow artists, sitters and patrons, lovers, and allegory. In addition, it features a special section on a traumatic and pivotal period in Schiele's life: his arrest and imprisonment during the summer of 1912. Documenting the artist's changing style, both pre- and post-imprisonment, the book features many key works that have been assembled for this exhibition from both American and European museums and private collections.Hardcover296 pages | 227 color; 72 black-and-white-illustrationsNeue Galerie New YorkPrestel, 20149.3 x 11.2 inchesISBN 9783791354194Neue Galerie Exhibition Catalogue, Painting, Drawings, Portraits

Egon Schiele Portraits Exhibition Catalogue

Egon Schiele usually carried a small sketchbook with him, jotting down his compositional ideas and other personal notions on the go. This facsimile edition provides unusual insight into the artist's mind and working methods. Twenty-two of these small scale sketchbooks are known to have survived. Most of them are now preserved in the Egon Schiele Archiv of the Albertina in Vienna. The one reproduced here includes sketches for a number of important paintings from this period. In addition to the numerous drawings relating to Schiele’s artistic oeuvre, there are several architectural sketches among the pages. There are also fashion sketches, miscellaneous notations, addresses, and calculations. A reproduction based on the original from the Serge Sabarsky collection. Limited edition, numbered set of 1000 Neue Galerie exclusive Limited Edition, Drawing

Egon Schiele's Sketchbook 1910-1913

This extraordinary object is a flawless reproduction of a rare Egon Schiele sculpture. The original was created by Schiele when he was briefly imprisoned in April 1912. It conveys a remarkable sense of angst in a highly compressed form. Cast bronze (original modeled from kneaded and carved bread) 1.5 x 1.25 x 1.5 in. (3.8 x 3.2 x 3.8 cm) Limited edition, numbered set of 200

Egon Schiele's Portrait of a Sankt Pölten Prisoner (Bronze), 1912

Available for Pre-Order. Delivery in 2 weeks. Currently (2) Folios available. Facsimile portfolio of twelve portrait drawings by Egon Schiele (1890-1918). This portfolio edition features works from the Neue Galerie New York and the Albertina, Vienna, two of the greatest museum collections of works by Schiele in the world. Preface by Renée Price, Director of Neue Galerie New York, with essay by Klaus Albrecht Schröder, Director of the Albertina. Printed on archival paper and housed in a suede-lined clamshell box with a tooled leather spine label. Portfolio designed under the direction of Luke Ives Pontifell, publisher of Thornwillow Press. Limited edition of 185 copies. Included are exact reproductions of the following drawings: Nude Girl with Folded Arms (Gertrude Schiele), 1910Albertina, ViennaSeated Female Nude with Black Stockings, 1910Neue Galerie New York. Donated by Ronald S. LauderSelf-Portrait with Arm Twisted above Head, 1910Private CollectionSchiele, Drawing a Nude Model, before a Mirror, 1910Albertina, ViennaReclining Semi-Nude, 1911Private CollectionSemi-Nude Girl, Reclining, 1911Albertina, ViennaBlonde Nude Model, Sitting on Brownish-Blue Cloth, 1912Albertina, Vienna Wally in Red Blouse with Raised Knees, 1913Serge Sabarsky CollectionFriendship, 1913Private CollectionReclining Female Nude with Legs Spread Apart, 1914Albertina, ViennaTwo Girls, Lying Entwined, 1915Albertina, ViennaKneeling Semi-Nude, 1917Private Collection The largest print is 13 3/16 x 20 9/16 inches.All prints in the portfolio are mounted on a 16 13/16 x 24 5/8 inch matte.The shell is 17 3/4 x 26 x 2 1/2 inches. Prints, Limited Edition, Watercolor and Drawing

Egon Schiele: Portraits Facsimile Portfolio

By Tobias G. Natter “Schiele fans, especially those with capacious bookcases, will love it.”—The Spectator, London“Schiele’s daringly explicit drawings are so immaculately reproduced that you could cut them out and frame them.”—The Times, LondonOver the course of his short life, Austrian artist Egon Schiele (1890–1918) blazed a turbulent Expressionist trail. A child prodigy, young rebel, and chronic provocateur, he caused uproar among the establishment with his contorted lines, distorted bodies, and explicit eroticism and continues to startle to this day with his unflinching images of himself and his nude subjects.In this expansive XXL-format book, we survey the complete catalogue of Schiele paintings from his most innovative and prolific decade between 1909 and 1919. The 221 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. His subjects are elongated, angular, and twisted. With protruding ribs, contorted limbs, and sickly skin, the body becomes a locus of anguish. The only reprieve is the promise of sex. Like no other early 20th-century artist, Schiele laid genitalia bare, bringing some of the most candid renderings of the vagina in Western art history, as well as scenes of masturbation and lesbian sex.These startling works are presented alongside biographical details, expert insights, as well as Schiele’s own writings and poems, offering intimate access to the ideas behind his work and his extraordinary legacy through countless 20th-century masters, from Francis Bacon and Otto Muehl to Julian Schnabel, David Bowie, and Tracey Emin. Hardcover612 pagesTaschen, 201718 x 3 x 12 inchesISBN 9783836546126Artist Monograph, Painting, Drawing, Portraits, Landscapes

Egon Schiele: The Complete Paintings 1909–1918

By Tobias G. NatterAfter 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 Günter Brus and Francis Bacon to Tracey Emin. Today, his then misunderstood oeuvre continues to fetch exorbitant prices on the international art market.This monograph, first published in an XL edition, is now available in a slightly abridged, more compact edition to celebrate TASCHEN’s 40th anniversary and 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.Hardcover512 pagesTaschen, 20208.8 x 1.7 x 6.5 inchesISBN 9783836581257Artist Monographs

Egon Schiele. The Paintings. 40th Anniversary Edition

By Alessandra Comini ''This erudite, mostly engaging self-portrait charts the making of an art historian and professional 'seer,' whose passion and wit enabled her to become a noted teacher and scholar at Southern Methodist University. Comini helped unearth centuries of overlooked women in art and wrote landmark studies of the Austrian painter Egon Schiele and of musical iconography. For someone engaged in a life of the mind, she has lived much of it in motion, and the art of travel and close consideration of cultural context have been her keys to learning and teaching. She is at her riveting best when she reveals her discoveries about Schiele in his Vienna prison cell, Winckelmann in Rome and Trieste, the composer Edvard Grieg in Norway, and the painter Akseli Gallen-Kalella in Finland. Her short essays dazzle the most when they reveal her keen eye, such as when she discerns how the German artist Kathe Kollwitz, in a bust of herself, 'used the resolute features of her own aging face as a spiritual topography for courage and resignation.''' --Booklist Overflowing with passion for her work as a scholar and teacher, Distinguished Professor of Art History Emerita at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, Alessandra Comini reminisces through six decades as an unconventional art historian in this illustrated memoir. The author of award-winning books on Egon Schiele, Gustav Klimt, and Ludwig van Beethoven, Comini draws on her sixty years of daily journals, sharing research-related anecdotes as she reflects on the formation and flowering of her distinguished career. Beginning with her colorful background as a refugee from Franco's Spain, then Mussolini's Italy, she describes her music-loving family's sometimes humorous, sometimes painful adjustment to a World War II Texas. A series of fortuitous experiences at Interlochen's National Music Camp, Barnard College, the University of California at Berkeley, and Columbia University later leads to what would ultimately be a turning point in her life as well as in Schiele scholarship. She discovered the actual cell in which Schiele had been imprisoned in a provincial Austrian jail half a century earlier. Comini invites readers to join her in the same zestful and persistent pursuit of cultural history that has repeatedly earned her the honor of being voted "outstanding" professor, by her students at Columbia University and later at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. Her research and quests take the reader around the world and back. From the islands of Corfu, Madeira, R gen, and Tahiti to the cities of Lisbon, Rome, Oslo, and St. Petersburg, Comini pursues such diverse and distinctive personalities as Rosa Bonheur, Gustav and Alma Mahler, Pablo Picasso, Eleonora Duse, Edvard Munch, K the Kollwitz, Vaslav Nijinski, and Egon Schiele. Alessandra Comini's memoir will inspire readers with its sincere and compelling account of an extraordinary life and career still passionately in progress. Retirement for her has meant discovering a joyful new profession: writing art history murder mystery novels that take her eighty-year-old pseudonymous heroine Megan Crespi from the top of Europe down to Antarctica in pursuit of murderous purloiners of artworks by Klimt, Schiele, Kokoschka, Munch, and Kollwitz. Paperback242 pagesSunstone Press, 20166 x 0.55 x 9 inchesISBN 9781632931405History

In Passionate Pursuit

By Rudolph Leopold One of the most lavishly illustrated collections of Egon Schiele’s work ever published, presented in an updated new edition. In 1972, Austrian collector Rudolf Leopold (1925–2010) published a landmark catalog raisonné of the work of painter Egon Schiele (1890–1918). Long out of print, Leopold’s book now returns in an updated new edition that will introduce the next generation of art lovers to the work of one of Gustav Klimt’s most talented protégés, known for his arresting self-portraits, sexually charged figure drawings, and haunting industrial landscapes. In addition to the color prints of Schiele’s paintings and drawings, this book provides insight into the artist’s life through letters, sketches, and documents, from his adolescence as an art student in fin de siècle Vienna to his death from flu after the close of World War I. Egon Schiele presents Schiele’s paintings, watercolors, and drawings chronologically in large-format color plates, providing a comprehensive overview of the many works Schiele completed in his short life.Hardcover736 pages | 931 illustrationsHirmer Publishers, 202211.8 x 11.8 x 2.3 inchesISBN 9783777440323 Artist Monographs

Egon Schiele. Catalogue Raisonne. Third Edition.

By Reinhard Steiner With his graphic style, figural distortion, and defiance of conventional standards of beauty, Egon Schiele (1890–1918) was a pioneer of Austrian Expressionism and one of the most startling portrait painters of the 20th century.Mentored by Gustav Klimt, Schiele dabbled in a glittering Art Nouveau style before developing his own much more gritty and confrontational aesthetic of sharp lines, lurid shades, and mannered, elongated figures. His prolific portraits and self-portraits stunned the Viennese establishment with an unprecedented psychological and sexual intensity, favoring erotic, exposing, or unsettling poses in which he or his sitters cower on the floor, languish with legs akimbo, glower at the viewer, and thrust their genitalia into the foreground. His models are at times skeletal and sickly, at other times strong and sensual.Many contemporaries found Schiele’s work to be not only ugly but morally objectionable; in 1912, the artist was briefly imprisoned for obscenity. Today, his oeuvre is celebrated for its revolutionary approach to the human figure and for its direct and particularly fervent, almost furious brand of draftsmanship. This book presents key Schiele works to introduce his short but urgent career and his profound contribution to the development of modern art, which reaches right through to such contemporary talents as Tracey Emin and Jenny Saville. Hardcover95 pagesTaschen, 20145.8 x 1.8 x 8.2 inchesISBN 9783836504423Artist Monograph, Painting, Drawing, Expressionism

Schiele (Basic Art Series 2.0)

Edited by Elisabeth Leopold and Stefan KutzenbergerA lavishly produced volume of Egon Schiele’s self-portraits. Egon Schiele’s contorted and eccentric figures are among the most familiar and iconic images in twentieth-century art. A good many of those figures are self-portraits. Schiele returned to himself as a subject again and again over a period of many years, recording himself in various poses and styles. When he used his own body as a model, his interest often lay not in his actual self, but more generally in the position of the individual in the changing modern world. Posing in a variety of roles, Schiele uses his face like a mask. This beautifully produced book offers a comprehensive account of this crucial, yet underappreciated, aspect of Schiele’s art.Hardcover160 pages, 110 color plates9.5 x 11 inchesHirmer, 2023ISBN 9783777441832Self-Portraits, Monographs

The Faces of Egon Schiele: Self-portraits

Edited by Renée Price While his explicit nudes and self-portraits created controversy in Europe and America, his skill as a draftsman and his artistic passion unquestionably made Austrian Expressionist Egon Schiele one of the greatest artists of the twentieth century. In addition to presenting superb reproductions of the more than 150 paintings and drawings in the exhibition, this catalogue traces the history of Schiele's reception in the American art world. It offers fascinating information concerning Schiele collectors, promoters, critics, and followers, as well as the exhibitions, public acquisitions, publications, and other projects that have taken place in the United States. Essays pertaining to Schiele's life in Austria, the lost Schiele collections, and the censorship of the artist during and after his lifetime round out this stunning volume. Please note that this book is Out of Stock. 504 pagesHardcoverISBN 978-37913-33908Neue Galerie Exhibition Catalogue

Egon Schiele: The Ronald S. Lauder and Serge Sabarsky Collections

By Alessandra Comini “The best book on the Viennese wunderkind so far and maybe forever.”―John Canaday, The New York Times Book ReviewEgon Schiele was a meteor that flashed across the galaxy of Viennese art at the beginning of the last century. Although he lived only twenty-eight years--dying quite suddenly of influenza in 1918 just as World War I came to an end--he left a stunning pictorial oeuvre. Schiele's obsession with sexuality, his own and that of others, made him at once a voyeur and a participant in that sexual imperative which Freud was simultaneously plumbing with such unsettling results. The disturbing revelations of Schiele's unmasking portraiture and of the new science of psychology disclosed a collective cultural anxiety during the last years of the crumbling Austrian empire. As a seer into the souls of his sitters, Schiele redefined portraiture in the age of Angst. This new edition features a new introduction by the author.Paperback568 pagesSunstone Press, 20148.5 x 1.2 x 11 inchesISBN 9781632930125Artist Monograph, Painting, Drawings, Portraits

Egon Schiele's Portraits

By Martina Padberg An eccentric exhibitionist, Egon Schiele documented the discord of his time in furious paintings of people and self-portraits. Schiele’s artistic universe is ready to be rediscovered with these many illustrations of drawings, watercolors, graphics, and paintings. Hardcover288 pagesKoenemann, 20197.4 x 0.9 x 7.4 inchesISBN 9783955880996Artist Monograph, Drawing, Painting

By Rachel McGarry and Tom Rassieur This lavishly illustrated book presents one hundred significant drawings from the 15th to the 21st century, including new discoveries and works by both celebrated masters and others who deserve to be better known. Among the artists represented are Annibale and Ludovico Carracci, Guido Reni, Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, Antoine Watteau, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Pierre-Paul Prud hon, Thomas Gainsborough, George Romney, Edgar Degas, Henri Matisse, Lovis Corinth, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Käthe Kollwitz, Otto Mueller, Emil Nolde, Egon Schiele, Edward Hopper, John Marin, Grant Wood, Roy Lichtenstein, Jasper Johns, Andy Warhol, and Edward Ruscha.Catalogue entries for each drawing include complete documentation, provenance, and bibliography. The text provides important new scholarship and attributions; examines a variety of themes, such as connoisseurship, patronage, materials and techniques, watermarks, and collectors' stamps; and discusses how a work fits into the artist's oeuvre or represents larger developments in artistic movements or trends in artistic production. Hardcover288 pagesBooks & Projects, 201410.3 x 1.4 x 12.6 inchesISBN 9780989371841Museum Collections, Drawings

Master Drawings from the Minneapolis Institute of Arts

By Eric R. Kandel “In a polymathic performance, a Nobel laureate weaves together the theories and practices of neuroscience, art and psychology to show how our creative brains perceive and engage art—and are consequently moved by it . . . A transformative work that joins the hands of Art and Science and makes them acknowledge their close kinship.”—Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review “A fascinating synthesis of art, history, and science that is also accessible to the general reader. A distinctive and important title that is also a pleasure to read”—Library Journal, Starred Review “Eric Kandel’s training as a psychiatrist and his vast knowledge of how the brain works enrich this thoroughly original exploration of the relationship between the birth of psychoanalysis, Austrian Expressionism, and Modernism in Vienna.”—Margaret Livingstone, Professor of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School A brilliant book by Nobel Prize winner Eric R. Kandel, The Age of Insight takes us to Vienna 1900, where leaders in science, medicine, and art began a revolution that changed forever how we think about the human mind—our conscious and unconscious thoughts and emotions—and how mind and brain relate to art. Kandel tells the story of how these pioneers—Freud, Schnitzler, Klimt, Kokoschka, and Schiele—inspired by the Vienna School of Medicine, in turn influenced the founders of the Vienna School of Art History to ask pivotal questions such as What does the viewer bring to a work of art? How does the beholder respond to it? These questions prompted new and ongoing discoveries in psychology and brain biology, leading to revelations about how we see and perceive, how we think and feel, and how we respond to and create works of art. Kandel, one of the leading scientific thinkers of our time, places these five innovators in the context of today’s cutting-edge science and gives us a new understanding of the modernist art of Klimt, Kokoschka, and Schiele, as well as the school of thought of Freud and Schnitzler. Reinvigorating the intellectual enquiry that began in Vienna 1900, The Age of Insight is a wonderfully written, superbly researched, and beautifully illustrated book that also provides a foundation for future work in neuroscience and the humanities. It is an extraordinary book from an international leader in neuroscience and intellectual history. Hardcover656 pagesRandom House Publishers, 20126.6 x 1.6 x 9.5 inchesISBN 9781400068715Austrian History, Art History, Psychology

The Age of Insight

Egon Schiele (1890-1918), Town Among Greenery (The Old City III), 1917 24 x 24 inches

Egon Schiele: Town Among Greenery (The Old City III) Poster

Egon Schiele (1880-1918), Man and Woman I (Lovers I), 1914 24 x 25 inches

Egon Schiele: Man and Woman I (Lovers I) Poster

Egon Schiele (1890-1918), Portrait of the Artist's Wife Standing (Edith Schiele in Striped Dress), 1915 Exhibition poster for "Egon Schiele: Portraits" 18 x 24 inches

Egon Schiele: Portraits Exhibition Poster

Egon Schiele (1890-1918), Sunflower (Sonnenblume), 1916 16 x 20 inches

Egon Schiele Sunflower Poster

Exhibition notecard for "Egon Schiele: Living Landscapes"October 17, 2024—January 13, 2025Egon Schiele (1890-1918)Stein on the Danube, Seen from the South (Large), 1913Wilted Sunflowers (Autumn sun II), 1914 1 notecard and envelope5.75 x 8.75 inches

Egon Schiele: Living Landscapes: Exhibition Notecard [Large Single Card]

Egon Schiele (1890-1918)Portrait of the Artist's Wife, Standing (Edith Schiele in Striped Dress), 19151 notecard and envelope5.75 x 8.75 inches

Egon Schiele: Portrait of the Artist's Wife, Standing (Edith Schiele in Striped Dress), 1915 [Large Single Card]

Egon Schiele (1890-1918)Self-Portrait, 19121 notecard and envelope4 ¼ x 6 inches

Egon Schiele: Self-Portrait, 1912 [Single Card]

Egon Schiele (1890-1918)Erich Lederer in Front of a Window, Györ, 19121 notecard and envelope4 ¼ x 6 inches

Egon Schiele: Erich Lederer in Front of a Window, Györ, 1912 [Single Card]

Egon Schiele (1890-1913)Wally in Red Blouse with Raised Knees, 19131 notecard and envelope4 ¼ x 6 inches

Egon Schiele: Wally in Red Blouse with Raised Knees, 1913 [Single Card]

Egon Schiele (1890-1918)Stein on the Danube, Seen from the South (Large), 19131 notecard and envelope4 ¼ x 6 inches

Egon Schiele: Stein on the Danube, Seen from the South, 1913 [Single Card]

Egon Schiele (1890-1918)Town Among the Greenery (The Old City III), 19171 notecard and envelope4 ¼ x 6 inches

Egon Schiele: Town Among the Greenery (The Old City III), 1917 [Single Card]

Egon Schiele (1890-1918)View of the Artist's Studio, 19101 notecard and envelope4 ¼ x 6 inches

Egon Schiele: View of the Artist's Studio, 1910 [Single Card]

Egon Schiele (1890-1918)Frau Dr. Horwitz with Large Hat, 19101 notecard and envelope4 ¼ x 6 inches

Egon Schiele: Frau Dr. Horwitz with Large Hat, 1910 [Single Card]

Egon Schiele (1890-1918) Town among Greenery (The Old City III), 1917

Egon Schiele: Town among Greenery [Postcard]

Egon Schiele (1890-1918) Portrait of the Painter Karl Zakovsek(Bildnis des Malers Karl Zakovsek), 1910

Egon Schiele: Portrait of the Painter Karl Zakovsek [Postcard]

Egon Schiele (1890-1918) Man and Woman I (Lovers I), 1914

Egon Schiele: Man and Woman I (Lovers I) [Postcard]

Egon Schiele (1890-1918) Portrait of the Artist's Wife, Standing (Edith Schiele in Striped Dress), 1915

Egon Schiele: Portrait of the Artist's Wife, Standing [Postcard]

Written and illustrated by Xavier Coste Unveils the Austro-Hungarian artist's relationship with colleagues and models and the passions that drove him further into his craft. ―Douglas Rednour, Library Journal Schiele's brief, controversial career is examined with bold insights in this graphic biography... Coste doesn't shy away from the emotional brutality of Schiele's story. In fact, he embraces it, weaving elements of Schiele's eerie, idiosyncratic paintings with his own artistic style. Drawing on the same Expressionist techniques that drove Schiele's artistic passions, Coste conjures a story that beckons the reader to see the world through its subject's eyes. ―Publishers Weekly The story of the artistic genius who provoked early 20th-century tolerance. Egon Schiele is an evocative depiction based on the life of the Austro-Hungarian artist whose short career spanned the turn of the 20th century. Schiele (1890-1918) was a painter known for full-frontal portraits of naked women (and on many occasions, himself). They were stark and disturbing. He painted his subjects in gaunt, twisting and unnatural poses. Their voyeuristic tone and blatant eroticism outraged society, landing him in prison for 24 days. Nevertheless, his works would have a strong influence on the development of expressionist art. The book focuses on the artist's creative years, the development of his talent, his relationships with other artists, including Gustav Klimt, the women in his life, and his obsession with making provocative art. Quickly following Schiele's early successes were his failures. In the end, it was the Spanish flu that killed him at the tragically young age of 28. Egon Schiele is a seductive and intimate portrait of an artistic genius who was both lauded and condemned for his brilliance. His works, at one time judged to be disgusting and perverse, are now considered masterpieces and are in museums all around the world. Hardcover72 pages; fully illustratedFirefly Books, 20178.5 x 11.75 inchesISBN 9781770859401Graphic Novel

Egon Schiele: His Life and Death

This title is available for pre-order.By Sandra Dzialek, Kerstin Jesse, Jane Kallir, Hannes Leidinger, Edith Schiele, Hans-Peter Wipplinger, Simone HöniglEdited by Kerstin Jesse, Jane Kallir, Hans-Peter Wipplinger This spring, the Leopold Museum is dedicating a large-scale monographic exhibition to the central artist of the Leopold Collection, Egon Schiele (1890–1918). Changing Times. Egon Schiele’s Last Years: 1914–1918 is the first presentation to shine the spotlight on the artist’s late oeuvre. The eccentric exceptional artist only had around ten years of activity before he died at the age of 28 from the “Spanish Flu”. Throughout this decade, Schiele created a comprehensive oeuvre, which is best known for his key paintings and the drawings he realized between 1910 and 1913, in which he addressed his own mental states as well as the self-questioning and inner conflicts of an entire generation. From 1914, right in the middle of his professional career, Schiele faced dramatic changes both of a private and historical nature, which he was forced to adapt to and which impacted on his oeuvre. His previous introspection gave way to a new focus on external realities and novel themes, altering his artistic style. Hardcover336 pages | 362 illustrationsWALTHER KONIG, 20259.25 x 1.22 x 11.02 inchesISBN 9783753308166Monographs

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