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Egon Schiele: The Complete Paintings, 1909-1918
Tobias G Natter
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Hardcover. Editor(s): Natter, Tobias G. BIC Classification: ACXD; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
After 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, drastic 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, ... Read more
After 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, drastic 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, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
TASCHEN
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
608
Place of Publication
Cologne, Germany
ISBN
9783836546126
SKU
V9783836546126
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About Tobias G Natter
Tobias G. Natter is an internationally acknowledged expert on art in Vienna around 1900. For many years he worked at the Austrian Belvedere Gallery in Vienna, most recently as head curator. Parallel to that he was a guest curator, for example, at the Tate Liverpool, the Neue Galerie New York, the Hamburger Kunsthalle, the Schirn in Frankfurt am ... Read more
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