Schiele

About this book

Expressive nudes and self-portraits strange movements and morbid colours Egon Schiele (1890-1918) - along with Oskar Kokoschka - is the painter who had the most long-lasting influence on the Vienna art scene after the great era of Klimt came to a close. After a short flirtation with Klimts style Schiele soon questioned the aesthetic orientation to the beautiful surface of the Viennese Art Nouveau with his rough and not easily accessible paintings. Many contemporaries found Schieles expressive nudes and self-portraits with their strange movements and morbid colours to be ugly and even morally objectionable--criticism which culminated in criminalizing the painter as obscene and resulted in 1912 in an indictment and short jail sentence. However not even his harshest critics could dispute the artists extraordinary drawing talent. About the Series: Each book in TASCHENs Basic Art Series features: a detailed chronological summary of the life and oeuvre of the artist covering his or her cultural and historical importance a concise biography approximately 100 colour illustrations with explanatory captions