Jean-Louis Gaillemin

Egon Schiele

The Egoist

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Egon Schiele lived in Vienna during its last years as capital of the declining Habsburg Empire. Rejected by his family and hounded by society for his interest in young girls, he expressed through his art a deep and bewildering loneliness and an obsession with sexuality, death and decay.

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Produktdetails

• New Horizons
• Verlag: Thames & Hudson / Thames and Hudson Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. März 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 175mm x 123mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 250g
• ISBN-13: 9780500301210
• ISBN-10: 0500301212
• Artikelnr.: 23242461

Autorenporträt

Jean-Louis Gaillemin, founder of Beaux-Arts magazine and L'Objet d'art, is an honorary lecturer at the Université Paris-Sorbonne, specializing in architecture and decor.

Inhaltsangabe

1. The Beautiful Danube: Born in Tulln on the Danube, Egon Schiele decides to become a painter. Having earned his diploma at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts, he meets Gustav Klimt - 2. Me, Me, Me: From 1910 on, one of Schiele's recurrent motifs is the self-portrait, and he devotes himself to a 'pantomime of the self' that is unique of its kind - 3. From Paradise to Prison: Schiele produces a number of erotic drawings, and at the same time paints symbolic compositions on the theme of death - 4. Resurrection: The artist paints large allegorical canvases such as Hermits, where he shows himself with Klimt, and Cardinal and Nun, a satirical vision of the sins of the flesh 5. A Recognized Artist: No longer the 'terror of the bourgeois', by the time of his death Schiele is a pillar of artistic life in Vienna