Egon Schiele

Fear and Self-Loathing in Egon Schiele 's Work Egon Schiele was 20th century Austrian painter, known mostly for his erotic portraits of women and his tortured self-portraits, but he also did landscape painting and photography. It would be easy to assume that Egon Schiele was conceited and arrogant by looking at his self-portraits, because he would paint himself as a haloed visionary sent on earth to reveal the truth about sexuality (Izenberg 475) or draw erotic portraits of himself. It is, however, the opposite. Above all, Schiele 's work is marked by pain, often to the point of being pathetic (Resnik 120). This pain is rooted in the self-hatred that he feels because of his failure to live up to masculine ideals, and because of his problematic…

Egon Schiele By: Farshad Engineer Early Life Schiele was born on 12th June 1890 in Tulln, Lower Austria. When Schiele was a child, he was interested in trains he would devote hours sketching trains, he would sketch so much that his father wanted to destroy his sketchbooks. At the age of 11 Schiele moved to the nearby city of Krems, to attend secondary school. Early Life Cont’d. Schiele was a strange child in the eyes of the people around him, he was a shy and reserved and did not do well in…

former student Egon Schiele. Both twentieth century artists and both independent in their style, their work together embodies common idiosyncrasies. The two share many qualities in their work, especially a kind of anxiety. Although stylistically, Klimt 's work is formally ordered and decorative while Schiele 's work is unforgiving in its brutality. An example that displays this duality in their work and similar compositions are Klimt’s The Kiss and Schiele’s Death and the Maiden. Austrian…

1.Who was Johann Winckelmann, and what was his importance in the history of art? Johann Winckelmann was a German scholar who believed classical art triumphed over “natural” art that was popular in his time (Kleiner 784). He published works like History of Ancient Art (1764) which details different classical art works. However, the thing that set this piece apart from those before him is the fact that he organized less by biography and more by subject, style, and period (Kleiner 784) .…

The When considering the female figures depicted by Egon Schiele, one cannot denounce the erotic, pornographic nature of his work. Often, his models posing in a very sexual demeanor, usually reclined with legs outstretched (See figures 1.2-1.3). The models featured in his more erotic work were either that of his Mistresses or of prostitutes. He never painted his wife, Edith Harms, in such a sexually explicit manner. She was depicted, usually, fully clothed with a fuller figure apposed to that…

mind-boggling revelation, the room allowed for the viewer’s interpretation is endless. I believe the content and interpretation one can gather from Egon Schiele’s painting “Edith Schiele Seated” expresses this sentiment beautifully. I value subtlety in art. While symbolism and metaphor-laden pieces rank as some of the more thought-provoking works of art I’ve seen, it seems as if artists occasionally tend to strive towards being too “deep.” In an attempt to accomplish this,…

artists, Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele and Joan Miro. A close inspection of the artist’s use of color, line, shape, mass and space. To analyze the three artworks, I will use the Feldman method of analysis. Gustav Klimt was an Austrian symbolist painter known for his decorative style and exceeding love for his country and women, marked by a frank sense of eroticism. The starkness of a line is essential to Klimt’s art. Through it he conveys the essence of human form and the nature of it’s…

Drawing inspiration/influence is a particularly tricky situation, because as artists we feel this overarching desire—nay, need—to leave a permanent and unique stain on the world. If that stain resembles too closely one that came before it, then where is the ingenuity in that? This being the case, it is impossible to make anything of merit without being at least subconsciously influenced. Only upon realizing this fact and embracing it is an artist able to fully and successfully utilize the arts…

History ever since. I was twelve years old when my history teacher planted the idea of me choosing to have a career in archeology by showing me videos of people working on archeological sites. Despite my age he saw a potential in me due to how dedicated and serious I was about my assignments. My interest in the subject developed during my high school years during which I obtained outstanding grades in History, Art and Literature. This passion also flowed out into my social life as I started…

of painting, they are also similar in the sense that they both seek to portray reality in an outside-of-the-box type of way. A beautiful example of impressionism is Monet’s depiction of a mother and her child. Without looking for more than a brief moment, the viewer can immediately decipher what the painting is trying to portray—very simply, a mother in some sort of field of flowers with her child. Even though, upon further inspection, one notices that the way Monet painted this landscape was…