Schiele : 13 Articles

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The shadow behind the brush: the most disturbing biographies in art history

The shadow behind the brush: the most disturbing biographies in art history

Art history • 20 minutes read
Discover the darker, more tormented side of the artists who created disturbing masterpieces. We will discuss not their works, but the troubled lives of Caravaggio, Goya, Munch, Dalí and other masters, revealing the stories of violence, anguish and madness that fueled their creative genius...
Double vision: the dynamics of Expressionism in Germany and Austria

Double vision: the dynamics of Expressionism in Germany and Austria

Art history • 9 minutes read
A comparison of German and Austrian Expressionism, two movements that, despite having originated in similar contexts, manifest unique and distinctive nuances. Expressionism, known for its deep exploration of the human condition and manifestation of intense emotions, actually found fertile ground in both Germany and Austria...
Chicago Museum Retains Contested Schiele Artwork After Legal Ruling

Chicago Museum Retains Contested Schiele Artwork After Legal Ruling

Art News • 1 minutes read
The Art Institute of Chicago has provisionally won a legal dispute, retaining the Egon Schiele painting "Russian War Prisoner" against claims from heirs of Fritz Grünbaum, a victim of Nazi theft. Judge John G. Koeltl's decision supports the museum, dismissing allegations of unlawful possession amid ongoing legal challenges.
The Trees in Art History

The Trees in Art History

Art history • 8 minutes read
We would need a thousand more poems, because if this last one places trees next to houses, other times they seem alone, or accompanied by figures or animals, and sometimes even as mute and immobile spectators of 'fantastic' events...
Egon Schiele Works Are Returned to the Heirs of a Jewish Art Collector Following a New York Investigation

Egon Schiele Works Are Returned to the Heirs of a Jewish Art Collector Following a New York Investigation

Egon Schiele • 4 minutes read
The heirs of a Jewish art patron who died in a concentration camp in 1941 recently received seven Egon Schiele pieces that were just returned to them by the Manhattan District Attorney's office...
Egon Schiele's artworks, suspected of having been looted during the Nazi era, have been confiscated from museums across the United States

Egon Schiele's artworks, suspected of having been looted during the Nazi era, have been confiscated from museums across the United States

Egon Schiele • 3 minutes read
The Manhattan District Attorney's office has directed the impounding of artworks held at the Art Institute of Chicago, Carnegie Museums, and Allen Memorial Art Museum...
Top ten: male nude paintings

Top ten: male nude paintings

Art history • 14 minutes read
The female nude has been, since the dawn of human civilization, at the center of the art historical narrative, which, in a sense, has been more accepting of the externalization of this type of physicality, compared to the male nude...
Top 10: the most scandalous nudes in art

Top 10: the most scandalous nudes in art

Manet • 13 minutes read
My top ten has selected the best nude, crude, sensual, sometimes erotic and, as a result, extremely "scandalous," "demonic" and sometimes "dangerous" masterpieces for the eyes of those viewers most susceptible to the externalization of the sinuosities of the human body...
Self-Portrait with Chinese Lantern Plant

Self-Portrait with Chinese Lantern Plant

Famous painting • 4 minutes read
The 1912 Self-Portrait with Chinese Lantern Plant is one of Egon Schiele’s most famous works. The rich skin tones and the bright eye with the red pupil are striking characteristics. Schiele portrayed himself as an artist and sensitive person in this portrait. The Leopold Museum in Vienna, which has the biggest Schiele collection in the world, uses it as a "poster child" today.
Egon Schiele

Egon Schiele

Famous artist • 8 minutes read
Egon Schiele was one of the key figures of Austrian Expressionism with his distinctive graphic style, embrace of figural deformation, and rejection of conventional standards of beauty. His self-portraits and portraits of others are among the most outstanding works of the 20th century.

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