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From infancy onward, humans are fascinated by faces, and the European portrait tradition dates back to classical antiquity. Although the genre was temporarily eclipsed during the Middle Ages, portraiture experienced a robust revival in the Renaissance. Thereafter, portraits served as a bulwark for European and American elites, affirming their authority and providing steady employment for generations of artists. That system, however, was uprooted by industrial capitalism, which undermined both the established elites and the practice of direct artistic patronage. Beyond such socio-economic factors, the so-called portrait crisis of the early twentieth century was intensified by revolutionary changes in the biological and psychological conception of self. Addressing this identity crisis with greater fervor than modernists elsewhere, the Austrian and German Expressionists felt compelled to invent new approaches to portraiture.

Artists:  

Klimt, Gustav

Kokoschka, Oskar

Kollwitz, K盲the

Mammen, Jeanne

Modersohn-Becker, Paula

Motesiczky, Marie-Louise

Nolde, Emil

Pechstein, Hermann Max

Schiele, Egon

Schoenberg, Arnold