Schiele

Schiele

<div id="description_text_headlines"> <div> <strong>Expressive nudes and self-portraits, strange movements and morbid colours</strong></div> <div>  </div> </div> <div id="description_text"> Egon Schiele (1890-1918) - along with Oskar Kokoschka - is the painter who had the most long-lasting influence on the Vienna art scene after the great era of Klimt came to a close. After a short flirtation with Klimt€s style, Schiele soon questioned the aesthetic orientation to the beautiful surface of the Viennese Art Nouveau with his rough and not easily accessible paintings.<br /> <br /> Many contemporaries found Schiele€s expressive nudes and self-portraits, with their strange movements and morbid colours, to be ugly and even morally objectionable--criticism which culminated in criminalizing the painter as €obscene€ and resulted in 1912 in an indictment and short jail sentence. However, not even his harshest critics could dispute the artist€s extraordinary drawing talent.</div> <div>  </div> <div id="series_text" style="display: block;"> <strong>About the Series:</strong><br /> Each book in TASCHEN€s Basic Art Series features:<ul> <li>a detailed chronological summary of the life and oeuvre of the artist, covering his or her cultural and historical importance</li> <li>a concise biography</li> <li>approximately 100 colour illustrations with explanatory captions</li> </ul> </div>