Egon Schiele
The masterpieces of Egon Schiele: works both passionate and ruthlessly blunt, and at once highly subjective and allegorical.
To mark the 100th anniversary of Egon Schiele鈥檚 death, the Abertina is dedicating to the artist a comprehensive exhibition that positions his oeuvre in the electrifying context of Viennese society at the close of the Imperial era, with its uniquely intense clash between modernity and tradition. 180 of his finest and most important gouaches and drawings will introduce viewers to an artistic oeuvre that found its great theme in human beings鈥� existential loneliness.
Egon Schiele was not only a co-originator of expressionism and, along with Klimt, one of turn-of-the-century Vienna鈥檚 two key artistic figures, but above all the 20th century鈥檚 greatest draughtsmen. Schiele鈥檚 graphic works assume a particularly prominent place in his oeuvre: in his precisely calculated drawings, the artist broke new ground in terms of iconography and colour.
Works from the Albertina鈥檚 extensive collection provide the conceptual starting point and are rounded out by important loan works. The present exhibition thus presents a unique perspective on Schiele鈥檚 artistic development, which his untimely death at age 28 was to so abruptly cut short.
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The masterpieces of Egon Schiele: works both passionate and ruthlessly blunt, and at once highly subjective and allegorical.
To mark the 100th anniversary of Egon Schiele鈥檚 death, the Abertina is dedicating to the artist a comprehensive exhibition that positions his oeuvre in the electrifying context of Viennese society at the close of the Imperial era, with its uniquely intense clash between modernity and tradition. 180 of his finest and most important gouaches and drawings will introduce viewers to an artistic oeuvre that found its great theme in human beings鈥� existential loneliness.
Egon Schiele was not only a co-originator of expressionism and, along with Klimt, one of turn-of-the-century Vienna鈥檚 two key artistic figures, but above all the 20th century鈥檚 greatest draughtsmen. Schiele鈥檚 graphic works assume a particularly prominent place in his oeuvre: in his precisely calculated drawings, the artist broke new ground in terms of iconography and colour.
Works from the Albertina鈥檚 extensive collection provide the conceptual starting point and are rounded out by important loan works. The present exhibition thus presents a unique perspective on Schiele鈥檚 artistic development, which his untimely death at age 28 was to so abruptly cut short.
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