#MISSHAPEN CHAIR FACE REVEAL SERIES#

#MISSHAPEN CHAIR FACE REVEAL SERIES#

Viewers to the exhibition, which occupies the museum’s entire third-floor galleries, are immediately confronted with a large-scale reproduction of a black-and-white photograph of Schiele by Anton Josef Trčka, who collaborated with the artist between 19 on a series of photographic portraits. As with recent exhibitions at the Neue Galerie, the show offers audiences the kind of polished, comprehensive exhibition that individuals have come to expect from this intimate gem of a museum devoted to modern Germanic art, design, and architecture. In this regard, the exhibition indirectly posits that individuals who occupy Schiele’s portraits were primarily constructed through the artist’s modernist lens, rather than his need to reveal the “truth” of his subjects’ personas or bodies. The critic was not alone in his observation that gestures were key to Schiele’s oeuvre, as scholars past and present have uniformly noted the appeal and uniqueness of his representations of the body.Įgon Schiele: Portraits highlights the young Austrian artist’s interest in representing sitters and subjects-many of whom were family members, fellow artists, or self portraits-with wholly bizarre gestures or poses. Gütersloh, who was a fellow artist, writer, and critic in turn-of-the-century Vienna, was aware of the power of these signs early in Schiele’s career thus, it is not surprising that Schiele later captured Gütersloh’s likeness (and hand gestures) in a number of paintings and prints in 1918. In 1911, while viewing new works by the emerging Viennese Expressionist painter Egon Schiele (1890–1918), Albert Paris von Gütersloh suggested that Schiele’s paintings “yearn only for gestures”-an observation that epitomizes the very crux of Schiele’s varied portraits, with their enigmatic visual language of the human body (Albert Paris von Gütersloh, Egon Schiele, Vienna: Brüder Rosenbaum, 1911, 1).

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Misshapen chair face reveal