Alessandra Comini Libros

Starke Emotionen und malerische Virtuosität Dieser aufwendig gestaltete Band versammelt Werke voll starker Emotionen und malerischer Virtuosität und gibt faszinierende Einblicke in das Leben eines begnadeten Künstlers. Egon Schiele (1890–1918) gehört zu den wichtigsten Künstlern des 20. Jahrhunderts. Als meisterhafter Kolorist und Zeichner schuf er dem Vorbild seines Lehrers Gustav Klimt folgend Bilder von beeindruckender emotionaler Kraft und verstörender Intimität. Durch ihn fand die Kunst seiner Zeit zu einer neuen Offenheit. Sein früher Tod mit erst 28 Jahren trug dazu bei, den österreichischen Künstler zu einem Mythos werden zu lassen. Im Mittelpunkt von „Egon Schiele: Portraits“ stehen insgesamt fünf Werkgruppen mit Bildern von Familienmitgliedern, Akademiekollegen und Künstlerfreunden, Modellen und Mäzenen, Geliebten und allegorischen Figuren. Zusätzlich enthält das Buch ein Kapitel über eine einschneidende Periode in Schieles Leben: seine traumatische Gefängniszeit in den Sommermonaten 1912. Anhand von Arbeiten, die vor bzw. nach der Haftzeit entstanden, wird der Stilwandel in Schieles Werk eindrucksvoll vor Augen geführt. Eigens für die New Yorker Ausstellung sind viele dieser Werke aus amerikanischen und europäischen Museen und Privatsammlungen nun erstmals zusammengeführt worden.

Set against the backdrop of the vibrant music scene in Europe, the narrative follows Professor Megan Crespi as she uncovers an unknown bust of Johannes Brahms and embarks on a journey through Hamburg and Vienna. Amidst her lectures on Brahms and Klimt, tensions rise during a concert series featuring Brahms and Bruckner, leading to threats against conductor Agatha Endlich. As Megan investigates a long-hidden Brahms score, she navigates a web of suspects, including passionate fans and members of the illustrious Wittgenstein family, in a quest for artistic truth.

Set against the backdrop of a violent neo-Nazi demonstration, a moving van carrying eleven stolen Kandinsky paintings is hijacked in Slovakia. The plot thickens with the involvement of rival collectors Igor Rasputin and Boris Zima, as well as Zima's watchful agent, Raisa Sokolova. Despite the murder of the museum's night watchman, the Lenbach House Museum insists no theft has occurred, raising questions about the true nature of the events unfolding around the stolen artwork.

Retired art history professor Megan Crespi, an expert on the Expressionist artist Egon Schiele, is called to Vienna to help solve the brutal murder of a museum night watchman whose naked cadaver was propped up in the same pose as the nude self-portrait by Schiele above him. A series of attacks relating to Schiele occur, ranging from ''censoring'' of his nude figures' private parts with spray paint to desecration of his burial site. Amid restitution lawsuits and murderous competing gallery owners, Megan's investigations are endangered by the fanatical Grand Master of a secret sect dedicated to the obliteration of obscenity. Her own life in danger, the twisting Schiele trail leaves multiple corpses in its wake and leads Megan from conniving Vienna to remote Kaliningrad in Russia, to ancient Krumau in Bohemia, and bustling Milan in Italy as she hunts for a possible hidden trove of major Schiele paintings. What she discovers is undreamt of and leaves the Schiele world stunned and covetous. Includes Readers Guide.

In this third book in the Megan Crespi Mystery Series, a major double portrait by the Viennese Expressionist artist Oskar Kokoschka showing himself with his lover Alma Mahler has been stolen from the Basel Museum in Switzerland. Left in its place is an exact duplicate, except that Alma has been replaced by an unknown woman. Retired professor of art history Megan Crespi, an expert on Viennese art, is called in to help with the investigation. Then, a second theft of fourteen crates of unknown Kokoschka artworks from a Viennese storage vault takes Megan to Vienna. There she meets by accident the mysterious multimillionaire Desdemona Dumba. A stunning anorexic, Desdemona feels it is her role in life to bring Kokoschka's lost works together and away from public scrutiny. Meanwhile, two individuals, Leo Lang and Bruno Fichte-Mahler, harbor fanatical interest in Kokoschka and go to extreme measures either to desecrate or to protect the artist's images of Alma. An endangered Megan pursues leads that take her from Basel and Vienna to Berlin and finally to Xenia, Desdemona's remote islet off the Greek island of Corfu. Includes Readers Guide.

The meaning of portraiture in the egocentric and erotic culture of Vienna at the end of the Hapsburg Empire frames Alessandra Comini's definitive, lavishly illustrated study of the art of Egon Schiele (1890-1918), first published in 1975 and now available in paperback with a new preface and updated bibliography. Comini analyzes Schiele's work in the context of Viennese Expressionism, rising existential consciousness, and the unique ambiance of Vienna. The human figure forms the most compelling motif in Schiele's oeuvre, which is comprised of hundreds of oils and thousands of drawings. Numerous self-portraits record emotional states, reflect major stylistic changes, and provide a brilliant focus for this examination of his art and his life.

Alessandra Comini's illustrated memoir chronicles her vibrant journey as an unconventional art historian over six decades. Drawing from her daily journals, she shares personal anecdotes and reflections on her career, which began as a refugee and evolved through significant academic experiences. Comini highlights her groundbreaking discovery of Egon Schiele's prison cell, alongside her extensive research in art and musical iconography. Her explorations take readers across the globe, celebrating influential figures in art and music while emphasizing her passion for cultural history.

This text discusses Klimt's portraits, allegories and landscapes as separate facets, tracing the development of each through to its culmination. It also explores the reverse parallel between Freud's and Klimt's approach.

Amidst a shocking series of art thefts involving Edvard Munch's paintings, retired art history professor Megan Crespi is drawn into a dangerous investigation while vacationing in Scandinavia. Accompanied by her Maltese dog, Button, and her friend Lili, she navigates a web of suspects, including a nationalistic clan, a cosmetics mogul concealing her heritage, and a Swedish collector with a controversial lineage. As she travels across cities like Copenhagen and Stockholm, the stakes rise, and her life hangs in the balance.