Focusing on the life and work of Egon Schiele, this monograph by Rudolf Leopold, originally published in 1972, is a foundational text that contributed to the artist's global recognition. Now available in a revised edition, it features a richly illustrated catalog of Schiele's works. Additionally, the book provides valuable insights into the artist's life through letters, sketches, and documents, making it an essential resource for art historians and enthusiasts alike.
Kurztext Deutsch Nun im attraktiven Flexi-Cover erhältlich, beleuchtet diese Sammlung an Landschaftsbildern und -zeichnungen von Egon Schiele einen bislang nur wenig beachteten Aspekt aus dem Gesamtwerk des berühmten Malers. Bekannt ist Egon Schiele der in erster Linie für seine Porträt- und Aktdarstellungen, jedoch widmete er sich ebenso der Landschafts- und Naturmalerei sowie szenischen Darstellungen des alltäglichen Lebens. Zahlreiche Landschaftsbilder und Stadtansichten seines langjährigen Wohnortes Wien nehmen einen beachtlichen Teil seines Gesamtwerkes ein. In diesem Buch werden rund hundert hochwertig reproduzierte Landschaftsdarstellungen und Stadtszenen des Künstlers abgebildet, ergänzt durch zahlreiche Fotos der Originalschauplätze. Dieses Buch belegt eindrucksvoll, dass sich Schieles Können nicht nur auf die radikale, zum Teil provozierende Wiedergabe des menschlichen Körpers beschränkte. Es eröffnet dem Leser zugleich einen Zugang zu Themen, die sein gesamtes Werk durchziehen. Schieles Landschaftsbilder zählen zweifellos zu seinen bedeutsamsten Werken und liefern zudem einen wertvollen Beitrag zur europäischen Landschaftsmalerei.
Christian Schad’s (1894—1982) cool vibrant portraits, with their immaculate surface and the expressive eyes, functioning as „a mirror to the soul“, soon became icons of the twenties. Apart from its focus on these world-famous key works representing the artist’s decisive contribution to the Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity) movement, this publication also presents his early work, influenced by Cubism and Dadaism, and the abstracting tendencies of his work produced during the fifties. Works by companions and con temporaries place Schad`s art in the context of Classical Modernism. His graphic oeuvre shows that even at an advanced age he took joy in experimentation, doing brilliant work in a great variety of media and repeatedly exploring new frontiers, for example in his well-known and influential “Schadographs” and rare Formica pieces. A comparison with more recent exponents of realism is meant to stimulate a new evaluation of his often under-appreciated late work, in which, beginning in the 1960s, Christian Schad returned to this artistic position.
The Leopold Museum in Vienna is a Mecca for devotees of Egon Schiele as it houses thelargest Schiele collection in the world—the collection at the Leopold Museum - 42 paintings and 188 works on paper. Comprising works from 1905 to 1918, the year of Schiele's death, this book features large-scale reproductions that allow readers to closely examine the artist's extraordinary use of line and colour. Presented chronologically, these works on paper are accompanied by insightful commentary. An introduction and biography of Schiele by Rudolf Leopold discuss the artist's influences, his controversial career, and his place in the pantheon of twentieth-century artists. The art collection of Rudolf Leopold, displayed in this volume, well represents the brilliant draftsmanship, idiosyncratic color, and intense, often neurotic power of Schiele's work. Ms. Dabrowski's introduction tells enough about the painter's family background to account for his sexually morbid self-portraits and enough about turn-of-the-century Viennese society to account for his épater le bourgeois female nudes. Schiele was under thirty when he died in the flu epidemic of 1918. One can only wonder where his art would have gone in the 1920s, because in some respects he was already ahead of them. -- The Atlantic Monthly, Phoebe-Lou Adams.
Alfred Kubin is one of the most accomplished draughtsmen of visions of the 20th century. Born in 1877 at Leitmeritz in Bohemia, Kubin spent his youth and years of study at the School of Applied Arts in Salzburg. He later studied art and took drawing lessons in Munich. Inspired by his fascination with the philosophies of Schopenhauer and Nietzsche, and influenced artistically by Goya, Klinger, Ensor, Redon, Rops and Munch, Kubin first found his own idiosyncratic "Kubinesque" set of motifs, rooted in dream visions, at the turn of the last century. He called his imagery a vital "escape into the unreal": ghostly figures, hybrid creatures, variants of torture and self-torture, dream, vampirism, spiritualism, decadence, sex, death and birth. His extraordinary oeuvre comprises more than 20,000 drawings, a large part of it pen drawings and portfolio pieces as well as illustrations for more than 70 books, all of them testifying to his gloomy world view. This book features a representative selection of master sheets by the bizarre multi-talented artist.
The Leopold Museum in Vienna houses the world's most comprehensive collection of works by Egon Schiele, which features a unique concentration of chief works by this Austrian artist. The present publication offers a closer look at some 140 paintings, watercolors and drawings from this unrivaled collection, which cover all the periods of the artist's oeuvre, while the large illustrations afford exceptional insights into Egon Schiele's artistic genius and his preoccupation with line and color. Essays not only impressively outline the milieu and career of this provocative artist but also highlight Schiele's place among the great masters of the 20th century.
In diesem exklusiven Bildband werden ausgewählte Kunstwerke von Egon Schiele seinen Gedichten und Briefen gegenübergestellt, die noch nie veröffentlicht wurden. Schieles Bilder im Kontext seiner eigenen Schriften zu erleben, ermöglicht einen neuen, tiefgreifenden Einblick in seine Gedankenwelt, die von leidenschaftlicher Auseinandersetzung mit Leben und Tod, der Vergänglichkeit, Liebe und Erotik geprägt war.
Die Publikation zeigt über 160 Werke des Malers Albin Egger-Lienz, die seine stilistische Entwicklung dokumentieren. Sie umfasst Themen wie Heimat, religiöse Motive, den Tiroler Freiheitskampf und Krieg, und präsentiert ihn als bedeutenden Künstler des frühen 20. Jahrhunderts mit einem Fokus auf menschliches Dasein und Schicksal.
