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Delphi Complete Works of Egon Schiele
In spite of his death to Spanish Flu at the age of 28, Schiele would become one of the leading figures of Austrian Expressionism and a spokesman for a generation of ambitious artists in the years to come. His extraordinary artworks are characterised by their intensity, raw sexuality and controversial tone. Unlike his great mentor Gustav Klimt, Schiele emphasised expression over decoration, heightening the emotive power of line with agitated tension. The centre of his artistic interest was the contemplation of his own existence, as demonstrated by his countless self portraits. These searing, psychologically complex images explore the human figure at its most expressive. Delphi’s Masters of Art Series presents the world’s first digital e-Art books, allowing readers to explore the works of great artists in comprehensive detail. This volume presents Schiele’s complete works, with concise introductions, hundreds of high quality images and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1)
* The complete paintings of Egon Schiele – over 480 images, fully indexed and arranged in chronological and alphabetical order
* Includes reproductions of rare works
* Features a special ‘Highlights’ section, with concise introductions to the masterpieces, giving valuable contextual information
* Enlarged ‘Detail’ images, allowing you to explore Schiele’s celebrated works in detail, as featured in traditional art books
* Hundreds of images in colour – highly recommended for viewing on tablets and smartphones or as a valuable reference tool on more conventional eReaders
* Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the artworks
* Easily locate the artworks you wish to view
Contents
The Highlights
Self Portrait (1906)
Trieste Harbour (1907)
Gerti Schiele (1909)
Standing Nude Girl (1910)
The Prophets (1911)
Two Young Girls (1911)
The Artist’s Room in Neulengbach (1911)
Self Portrait with Chinese Lantern Plant (1912)
Self Portrait as a Prisoner (1912)
Heinrich Benesch and His Son Otto (1913)
Fighter (1913)
Reclining Woman with Legs Apart (1914)
Portrait of the Artist’s Wife (1916)
Death and the Maiden (c. 1916)
View of Krumau (1916)
Embrace II (1917)
The Family (1918)
The Artworks
The Complete Works
Alphabetical List of Artworks
* The complete paintings of Egon Schiele – over 480 images, fully indexed and arranged in chronological and alphabetical order
* Includes reproductions of rare works
* Features a special ‘Highlights’ section, with concise introductions to the masterpieces, giving valuable contextual information
* Enlarged ‘Detail’ images, allowing you to explore Schiele’s celebrated works in detail, as featured in traditional art books
* Hundreds of images in colour – highly recommended for viewing on tablets and smartphones or as a valuable reference tool on more conventional eReaders
* Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the artworks
* Easily locate the artworks you wish to view
Contents
The Highlights
Self Portrait (1906)
Trieste Harbour (1907)
Gerti Schiele (1909)
Standing Nude Girl (1910)
The Prophets (1911)
Two Young Girls (1911)
The Artist’s Room in Neulengbach (1911)
Self Portrait with Chinese Lantern Plant (1912)
Self Portrait as a Prisoner (1912)
Heinrich Benesch and His Son Otto (1913)
Fighter (1913)
Reclining Woman with Legs Apart (1914)
Portrait of the Artist’s Wife (1916)
Death and the Maiden (c. 1916)
View of Krumau (1916)
Embrace II (1917)
The Family (1918)
The Artworks
The Complete Works
Alphabetical List of Artworks
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Published November 9, 2023
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About the author
Peter Russell
284 books79 followersPeter Russell M.A., D.C.S., is a British author of ten books and producer of three films on consciousness, spiritual awakening and their role in the future development of humanity. He has designed and taught personal development programs for businesses, and has remained a popular public speaker.
In 1965 he was awarded an Open Exhibition to Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, to study Mathematics. In 1969, he gained a First Class Honours in Theoretical Physics and Experimental Psychology. He then went to Rishikesh, India, where he trained as a teacher of Transcendental Meditation under Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. In 1971, he gained a post-graduate degree in Computer Science. From 1971 to 1974, he studied for a Ph.D. on the psychophysiology of meditation at Bristol University.
In 1965 he was awarded an Open Exhibition to Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, to study Mathematics. In 1969, he gained a First Class Honours in Theoretical Physics and Experimental Psychology. He then went to Rishikesh, India, where he trained as a teacher of Transcendental Meditation under Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. In 1971, he gained a post-graduate degree in Computer Science. From 1971 to 1974, he studied for a Ph.D. on the psychophysiology of meditation at Bristol University.
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October 14, 2024
Given the nature of some of his artwork, I was worried that Egon Schiele would turn out to be… perverse? I was correct. Yuck, dude.
Talented artist but ew what a gross personal life.
Talented artist but ew what a gross personal life.
December 30, 2023
I liked Schiele's non human paintings and especially fond the nude paintings distasteful and his subject's hands looking goulish. His questionable child abuse is enough to wonder about his morality. His wife and his death was indeed truly sad. Some of his outdoor works remind me of Van Gogh's paintings.
"The oil and pencil on cardboard artwork was originally part of the collection of Dr. Heinrich Rieger, a discerning collector and personal friend of Schiele. Little is known about Rieger, except that he held a dental practice at 124 Mariahilferstrasse, where both Schiele and his wife were patients and that he was in the habit of accepting works of art in exchange for treatment. Through his practice and by spending all of his available income on the work of young Viennese artists, Rieger assembled one of the finest collections of avant-garde Austrian art. Nevertheless, his fate, like so many of the Austrian collectors of the time, was to be tragic. His collection was confiscated by the Nazis in 1938 and he died in Theresienstadt concentration camp in 1942"
"The painting once belonged to the Jewish Austrian cabaret artist Fritz Grünbaum, whose art collection was seized by the Nazis seized his art collection. Schiele’s works, considered “degenerate” by the Nazis, were largely auctioned or sold abroad to finance the Nazi Party. A vocal critic of the Nazis prior to the outbreak of the Second World War, Grünbaum was detained at the Dachau concentration camp as early as 1938 when he was coerced into signing a power-of-attorney document that allowed the Nazis to seize his collection. Grünbaum was killed at Dachau in 1941. For many years his heirs have sought to recover the 81 stolen Schiele artworks, some of which have been returned. In September 2023, New York authorities announced the return of $9 million worth of art to Grünbaum’s family, including Self Portrait as a Prisoner, which will be shortly offered for sale at auction"
"In choosing Edith for his bride, Schiele had effectively ignored his anti-bourgeois stance, indicating a desire to wed a woman of “suitable social standing”. Wally, well-known as an artist’s model and a woman who had had numerous lovers, could hardly conform to the middle-class morality that Schiele now aspired to and had formerly attacked with gusto. His abandonment of Wally is a clear indicator of Schiele’s unfeeling nature. They had lived together for four years and she had been his preferred model in most of his erotic drawings and important paintings. She had also supported him through the trials of the Neulengbach affair, when suddenly he announced to his lover that he would be marrying another woman. Reportedly, he silently handed her a letter in which he offered to spend several weeks every summer on holiday together. Of course, Wally refused this degrading offer, pointing out that his wife would never accept such an odd arrangement. Following the separation, Wally volunteered for the Red Cross and shortly died of scarlet fever in Dalmatia. She would never see her artist lover again. In spite of Edith’s parents’ dismay at the prospect of their daughter marrying a financially inept artist, who was recently imprisoned for exposing minors to pornographic material, the marriage took place on 17 June 1915, a few days before he was conscripted to Prague. Schiele’s decision to marry Edith expresses his newfound wish for a steady and ‘more normal’ life. This following portrait of his bride was begun in the August of that year, when Schiele managed to obtain sick leave from his army post."
"In the autumn of 1918, the Spanish flu pandemic reached Vienna. Edith, six months pregnant at the time, died from the disease on 28 October. Having nursed his wife, Schiele was now ill himself and brought to his mother-in-law’s house in Vienna Hietzing to be looked after. In the early morning of 31 October, only three days after his wife, Schiele died. He was 28 years old. During the three days between their deaths, he had completed a few sketches of Edith"
"The oil and pencil on cardboard artwork was originally part of the collection of Dr. Heinrich Rieger, a discerning collector and personal friend of Schiele. Little is known about Rieger, except that he held a dental practice at 124 Mariahilferstrasse, where both Schiele and his wife were patients and that he was in the habit of accepting works of art in exchange for treatment. Through his practice and by spending all of his available income on the work of young Viennese artists, Rieger assembled one of the finest collections of avant-garde Austrian art. Nevertheless, his fate, like so many of the Austrian collectors of the time, was to be tragic. His collection was confiscated by the Nazis in 1938 and he died in Theresienstadt concentration camp in 1942"
"The painting once belonged to the Jewish Austrian cabaret artist Fritz Grünbaum, whose art collection was seized by the Nazis seized his art collection. Schiele’s works, considered “degenerate” by the Nazis, were largely auctioned or sold abroad to finance the Nazi Party. A vocal critic of the Nazis prior to the outbreak of the Second World War, Grünbaum was detained at the Dachau concentration camp as early as 1938 when he was coerced into signing a power-of-attorney document that allowed the Nazis to seize his collection. Grünbaum was killed at Dachau in 1941. For many years his heirs have sought to recover the 81 stolen Schiele artworks, some of which have been returned. In September 2023, New York authorities announced the return of $9 million worth of art to Grünbaum’s family, including Self Portrait as a Prisoner, which will be shortly offered for sale at auction"
"In choosing Edith for his bride, Schiele had effectively ignored his anti-bourgeois stance, indicating a desire to wed a woman of “suitable social standing”. Wally, well-known as an artist’s model and a woman who had had numerous lovers, could hardly conform to the middle-class morality that Schiele now aspired to and had formerly attacked with gusto. His abandonment of Wally is a clear indicator of Schiele’s unfeeling nature. They had lived together for four years and she had been his preferred model in most of his erotic drawings and important paintings. She had also supported him through the trials of the Neulengbach affair, when suddenly he announced to his lover that he would be marrying another woman. Reportedly, he silently handed her a letter in which he offered to spend several weeks every summer on holiday together. Of course, Wally refused this degrading offer, pointing out that his wife would never accept such an odd arrangement. Following the separation, Wally volunteered for the Red Cross and shortly died of scarlet fever in Dalmatia. She would never see her artist lover again. In spite of Edith’s parents’ dismay at the prospect of their daughter marrying a financially inept artist, who was recently imprisoned for exposing minors to pornographic material, the marriage took place on 17 June 1915, a few days before he was conscripted to Prague. Schiele’s decision to marry Edith expresses his newfound wish for a steady and ‘more normal’ life. This following portrait of his bride was begun in the August of that year, when Schiele managed to obtain sick leave from his army post."
"In the autumn of 1918, the Spanish flu pandemic reached Vienna. Edith, six months pregnant at the time, died from the disease on 28 October. Having nursed his wife, Schiele was now ill himself and brought to his mother-in-law’s house in Vienna Hietzing to be looked after. In the early morning of 31 October, only three days after his wife, Schiele died. He was 28 years old. During the three days between their deaths, he had completed a few sketches of Edith"
June 25, 2024
Amazing artist, died too young.
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