Egon Schiele: Masterpieces from the Leopold Museum
This volume gathers some 140 paintings, watercolors and drawings by Egon Schiele from the Leopold Museum in Vienna, which famously possesses the world’s most comprehensive and eminent collection of works by this most beloved of modern artists. It covers all periods of Schiele’s oeuvre, with examples of his earliest creations, his renowned Expressionist period and the work created shortly before his untimely death. Among the classic Schiele paintings housed in the collection are the “Seated Male Nude” (a self-portrait) of 1910 and “The Hermits” of 1912 (probably depicting Schiele with Gustav Klimt). Cityscapes constitute another emphasis in Schiele’s oeuvre as well as landscapes including “Houses by the Sea."Throughout the book, numerous full-page illustrations afford exceptional insight into Schiele’s genius for line and color. Essays by Elisabeth Leopold, Rudolf Leopold, Franz Smola and Birgit Summerauer outline the milieu and career of this provocative artist but also highlight Schiele’s place among the great masters of the 20th century. The epitome of Viennese modernism, Egon Schiele (1890–1918) developed an anti-academic style of rendering figures, which are only rarely shown head-on or in full length, appearing contorted by their compositional arrangement. After brief service in the army during World War I, Schiele died of a pandemic influenza on 31 October 1918.
Details
Summerauer Birgit (Article author), Smola Franz (Article author), Leopold Rudolf (Article author), Leopold Elisabeth (Article author), Wipplinger Hans-Peter (Preface)
Cologne
2017
304 pages
9783960980810
Available on request
Yes
No
709.201 Sch
1
- Franz Marc1987
- Пикассо и окрестности: Сборник статей2006
- Brancusi New York: 1913–20132013
- Edward Hopper and the American Imagination1995
- Письма к друзьям2015
- Rene Magritte (Or: The Rule of Metaphor)2018
- Пабло Пикассо. «Любительница абсента»2019
- Hans Richter: Encounters2013
- Paul Gauguin: Das verlorene Paradies1998
- Diego Rivera: Murals for the Museum of Modern Art2011
- Пауль Клее2007
- The Picasso Book2010