A digital update of the Schiele raisonné catalog is now available that allows scholars and other enthusiasts to link and search for papers on specific topics. The database is currently focused on oils, prints and sculptures by Expressionist painters, is the work of a group led by Jane Kallier, author of Schiele’s latest raisonné catalog and co-director of Galerie St. Etienne in New York. Egon Schiele Online documents artists’ paintings, drawings and watercolors, 1 albums, graphics and sculptures comprehensively.
Egon Schiele ( born June 12, 1890 in Tulln – died October 31, 1918 in Vienna ) is an Austrian expressionist painter, draftsman and printmaker known for his eroticism and revolutionary works. In a short life, interrupted by the Spanish influence, Egon Schiele created a work that was symptomatic and revolutionary for his time, making him one of the brightest and most prominent figures of Viennese modernism.
Egon Schiele is a protégé of Gustav Klimt, a European sensation and a well-known name and his powerful work often escapes into the surrounding shadows of the spotlights that illuminate Klimt, but the only common thread remains their shared appreciation of the beauty of human form, particularly the feminine form. Although Egon Schiele had a sadly short life, he left the world before his death.
Klimt invited Schiele in 1909 to exhibit some of his works at the Vienna Art Gallery where he became acquainted with works by Edvard Munch, Jan Torop and Vincent Van Gogh and presented his work in 1909 to the Viennese public at the International Art Exhibition, where he met his earliest and most important patrons such as the critic Arthur Ressler whose portraits he later painted.
In 1912, Schiele exhibited his work at various exhibitions and also was interested in portraying various aspects of sexuality, which led to his work on many occasions being branded as pornographic, but his most important contact this year was the Munich art dealer Hans Goltz. Schiele exhibited the work together with members of Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider) at the Goltz Gallery.
During a visit to Munich in 1907, Schiele studied the work of contemporary artists and exposed them to innovative movements such as Cubism. Klimt was especially interested in the young artist, buying his drawings, offering to exchange them for his own, developing models for him and presented them to potential visitors.
Schiele entered the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts under Professor Christian Gripenkerl in fall 1906, met Gustav Klimt in 1907 and Klimt became an important supporter and mentor of.. Schiele and participated in the Vienna International Art Exhibition 1909.
All of his work is the work of a young man, most of his work in the first of two rooms in this tightly packed small exhibition, date from 1910-11, when Schiele (1890-1918) was only 20 years old. Schiele was the hero of 1980 biopic Excess and Punishment (aka Egon Schiele-Exzess und Bestrafung ), a German-born European cast who explores Schieles’s artistic demons before his untimely death.
Egon Schiele, known for his erotic paintings and self-portraits, remains a controversial figure in art history for his works of flamboyance and crude sexuality, as well as numerous self-portraits created by the artist, including nudity-themed self-portraits.
They became one of Schiles’ greatest supporters despite his poor reputation. The old Secessionist painter initiated Schiele to the Wiener Werkstatte, a fine arts society founded by separatists Joseph Hoffmann and Koloman Moser.
Later, he expressed portraits, together with Klimt and Oskar Kokoschka (1886-1980) (whose psychological portraits, painted simultaneously with his show, are less erotic), are close to Klimt in the sense of greater volume and their concern for a less offensive reality. (Portrait of Albert Paris of Gutersloh, 1918, Art Institute of Minneapolis; Family, 1918, Osterreichische Galerie, Vienna).
