Klimt and Schiele: Drawings

Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele were two Austrian masters of the turn of the 20th century. They created daring depictions of the human body in drawing, seeking psychological truth and physical realism. Klimt's studies featured delicate, sinuous lines, while Schiele's drawings were bold and expressive. This book offers a rare glimpse into their worlds, providing a direct connection to their minds and the shock of recognition.

\n Format: Hardback
\n Length: 152 pages
\n Publication date: 01 February 2018
\n Publisher: Museum of Fine Arts,Boston
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Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele were two of the most daring and controversial artists in Vienna during the culturally turbulent decades around the turn of the 20th century. They worked out their provocative depictions of the human body, created in a search for psychological truth as well as physical realism, in the direct and intimate medium of drawing. In Klimts studies, the distinctive character or unsettling emotional resonance of the person portrayed comes through in the artists delicate, sinuous lines. The striking presence of the individual in Schieles more finished drawings, often rendered with extreme frankness and bold coloration, pulses with dramatic immediacy. Although Klimt was almost thirty years Schieles senior, he quickly recognized and encouraged the younger artists extraordinary talent. The sixty important works exquisitely reproduced in large format in this volume reach from each artists early academic studies to more incisive and unconventional explorations of nature, psychology, sexuality, and spirituality. By giving viewers access to these artists worlds, this album of unforgettable drawings provides a direct connection to the minds of two master draftsmen exploring the limits of representation, as well as the shock of recognition at seeing our own inner lives caught on paper.

Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele were two of the most daring and controversial artists in Vienna during the culturally turbulent decades around the turn of the 20th century. They worked out their provocative depictions of the human body, created in a search for psychological truth as well as physical realism, in the direct and intimate medium of drawing. In Klimts studies, the distinctive character or unsettling emotional resonance of the person portrayed comes through in the artists delicate, sinuous lines. The striking presence of the individual in Schieles more finished drawings, often rendered with extreme frankness and bold coloration, pulses with dramatic immediacy. Although Klimt was almost thirty years Schieles senior, he quickly recognized and encouraged the younger artists extraordinary talent. The sixty important works exquisitely reproduced in large format in this volume reach from each artists early academic studies to more incisive and unconventional explorations of nature, psychology, sexuality, and spirituality. By giving viewers access to these artists worlds, this album of unforgettable drawings provides a direct connection to the minds of two master draftsmen exploring the limits of representation, as well as the shock of recognition at seeing our own inner lives caught on paper.

\n Weight: 1554g\n
Dimension: 301 x 367 x 21 (mm)\n
ISBN-13: 9780878468522\n \n