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SCHIELESCHIELE
Authors:
Esther Selsdon and te Zwingerberger
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ISBN: 978-1-78042-737-9
Esther Selsdon
te Zwingerberger
Egon Schiele
Contents
His Life 7
His Work 69
Biography 192
Index of Works 194
6
His Life
n 1964, Oskar Kokoschka evaluated the first great Schiele Exhibition in London as
“pornographic”. In the age of discovery of modern art and the loss of “subject”, Schiele
I responded that for him there existed no modernity, but only the “eternal”. Schiele’s world
shrank into portraits of the body, locally and temporally mittal. Self-discovery is
expressed in an unrelenting revelation of himself as well as of his models. The German art
encyclopaedia, compiled by Thieme and Becker, described Schiele as an eroticist
because Schiele’s art is an erotic portrayal of the human body. Furthermore, Schiele
studied both male and female bodies. His models express an incredible freedom with
respect to their own sexuality, self-love, homosexuality or voyeurism, as well as skilfully
seducing the viewer.
For Schiele, the clichéd ideas of feminine beauty did not interest him. He knew that the
urge to look is interconnected with the mechanisms of disgust and allure. The body
contains the power of sex and death within itself. A photograph of Schiele on his
deathbed depicts the twenty-eight-year-old looking asleep, his gaunt