Flauxhemian... It could be his wife Edith Harms, but he also drew the sister Adele harms, but because of the similarities of the sisters has sometimes made it hard to distingguish the two, especially as Schiele was not always accurate in his replication of telling details. Edith had blond hair, while Adele' hair was darker, but either might have be given redish tresses by the artist and stylization of facial features further complicates identification. But it says in one of my Schiele biographies that Adele, unlike Edith, was not shy posing in her undergarments etc... thanks Cheiby11 for posting that piece
And Fabby ... you better come back
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I really love Schieles work...I find something just so raw, sexual and real about his art. It all seems rather truthful to me, they're very encapsulating without seeming edited or idealistic. This one Embrace-Lovers is stunning. I'd love to see it in real life. *sigh* So much character.
I really love Schieles work...I find something just so raw, sexual and real about his art. It all seems rather truthful to me, they're very encapsulating without seeming edited or idealistic. This one Embrace-Lovers is stunning. I'd love to see it in real life. *sigh* So much character.
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I was waiting for you Fabs......
Thank You for that Embrace-Lovers.. It is stunning.. The raw texture and heavyness in the painting is absolutely mesmerising...
And you are so right... Schieles work is so human in a way, even as disturbing it might be for some... It speaks to your senses and not some ideal, as you mentioned, or interlect... pure raw human emotions..
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It's funny how I set off in the beginning, that the focus on the erotic in Schiele's art was mearly an exaggeration... and what have we been focusing on in this thread... exactly that the erotic... ...
So I thought I would turn the focus to his "nature" paintings for a moment, which, in a way, doesn't exactly take us that fare away from what we have been discussing...
In one of my books I found this headline, for the chapter that describes his "nature" paintings, which I think captures them so well... "soul-landscapes"...
And I think Schiele says it himself beautifully in this letter to the collector Franz Hauer(in 1913)...
"I also make studies, but I mean and I know, that drawing after nature is meaningless for me, because I paint better from memory than observations of a landscape - I primarely observe bodymovement of mountains, trees and flowers. Everywhere we are reminded about similar movement in the human body, similar shifting pleasures and sorrows in plants. The painting in it self doesn't satisfy me; I know, that you can create qualities with colours. - Intensed and with its being and heart you sense an autumn tree in the summer; this melancholy would I like to paint"...
And that is exactly what I love about his "nature paintings that they full of soul, movement and emotions....
You are most welcome Fab.. .. I'm glad that you liked them..
What I also find fascinating about these "nature' painting is that Schiele carries his focus on decay, sadness, melanchly, pain etc..., that we see in his nudes/selfportraits in to the 'nature' painting... most of the painting he did of nature and landscapes he captured in the mood of Autumn... where we see everything decaying slowly into winter.. this sounds really depressing, but I find something quite special in this movement...
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funny how i never noticed this thread
i love schiele's work...quite the inspiration..compare to his admirer..klimt..i prefer his work more
it's so raw and so not perfect that it expresses one's sexual desires to a much more realistic way
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Yes, I agree this thread should be revived...and if it wasn't for my friendship with Multitudes I probably wouldn't have paid more than a passing interest to Schiele. He has now become one of my favorite artists.
EGON SCHIELE-MUSEUM
On June 12th 1990, on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Egon Schiele, the town of Tulln set up a worthy memorial to its greatest son in opening the Egon Schiele-Museum. The museum is situated directly on the banks of the Danube in Tulln, in the former district prison. It was Egon Schiele's stay and his creation of ten striking drawings in the prison cell at Neulengbach that engendered the idea of renovating the former district prison as the Schiele-Museum. Today you can see more than 100 original paintings of Egon Schiele in this museum.
Donaulände 28 , Tulln on the Danube , 3430 , Austria Phone ++43-2272-64570 , Fax ++43-2272-64116
egonschiele.museum.com
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Thank you Whitelinen for reviving this thread. ...
You're all welcome for the thread, it's my pleasure. He is so unique to me and such an inspiration, so i'm especially glad when I hear that I have been able to open somebody eyes to Schiele ... and thank you Goya for the Karma ...
I'm just gonna post some more of Schieles not so knowned 'nature' and city paintings, because it seems like the ones i posted long time ago are not showing ...
Untergehende Sonne(1913) Vier Bäume(1917)
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... you better come back
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.. The raw texture and heavyness in the painting is absolutely mesmerising...
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.. I'm glad that you liked them..
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