Leopold Museum Vienna reopens Richard Gerstl

11 November 2019, 12:40 | Art
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The artist, the forerunner of expressionists Oscar Kokoschka and Egon Schiele, committed suicide at 25. Viewers first saw his work decades later.

This exhibition can be called the return of Richard Gerstl (1883–1908), the predecessor of the pillars of figurative expressionism - Oscar Kokoschka and Egon Schiele. Friendship with Arnold Schoenberg ended in a stormy romance with the composer's wife. Gerstl was ostracized, he became depressed and committed suicide. The audience first saw his works only in 1931.

The Leopold Museum displays 50 works of Herstl from museums and private collections, as well as a rich context - one and a half hundred paintings, photographs, documents created by Herstl's contemporaries that could inspire him, and those who were influenced by his work. Among the inspirers are Vincent van Gogh, Edward Munch. From created after Gerstl - paintings by Pierre Bonnard, Chaim Soutine, Willem de Kooning and Francis Bacon, portrait of Gerstl, painted by Georg Baselitz. Naturally upside down. Gerstl himself is interested in self-portraits: a slender young man - even when he laughs, looks very sad.

Source: theartnewspaper.




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