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| Egon Schiele Autoportrait |
I was invited to an exhibit at a local museum this week. Sadly it´s not really worth commenting about it... At the same time I bumped into an article regarding detailed information on Wes Anderson´s new film "Grand Budapest Hotel" and the art work that appears as a center piece of the film. You can read the article right here. There is an appearance of some work by Egon Schiele, one of my favorite artists of all time which Im quite eager to see...
This Austrian expressionist, protege of Klimt, despite dying at a very young age (just 28) left behind a grand amount of art work to be admired by generations to come. Intense, erotic and tormented are the 3 words most used in all his biographies, accompanied by a profound need for understanding of his technique... -"His jagged lines arose more from psychological and spiritual feeling than from aesthetic considerations"- Controversial, disturbing, passionate, eclectic, compassionate, progressive, emotional.
"Excess of life" and "agony of thinking" are just as present as dark forces: "demons! – brake the violence! – your language, - your signs, - your power!", proclaims Egon Schiele. The range of his contradictory feelings culminates in the paradoxical and final finding: "Everything is lively dead".
If you ever find yourself wandering the streets of Vienna, don´t forget to visit his atelier at 101 Hietzinger Haupstrasse
Here are some of my favorite E.S.pieces:
Reclining Women
Four Trees
And the very well known (even replicated by Julianne Moore and Daisy Duck) Seated woman with a bent keen... also referred to as Seated woman with legs drawn up. This painting was completed in 1917 so they were bound to play around with the name a little!
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