The Tormented Life of Egon Schiele | Biographical Documentary

The Austrian Expressionist painter Egon Schiele produced over 200 paintings and thousands of drawings and other works in his short life – he concentrated on the human form - the women in his life and himself. His candid and intensely personal portraits often with pale, unhealthy skin tones and bizarre, twisted poses caused a sensation in pre-world war one Vienna; collectors of modern art loved his new angst-ridden style that seemed to embody the decay of a society that was about to implode. But more conservative elements of society found his work unfathomable and shocking - and he ended up in jail.

This biographical documentary tells the story of Schiele’s life and explores the reasons why so many of his paintings have a haunting and tormented quality to them.

Finding Out More
If you want to see the work of Egon Schiele, a trip to Vienna is a must – the books of Alessandra Comini contain reproductions of many of his pictures and I enjoyed the biography of Frank Whitford - it’s quite an old one but it doesn’t shy away from the more controversial aspects of his life. The movie Death and the Maiden is an interesting exploration of his complicated love life. I have added this and some of the books to my Amazon Store Page. https://www.amazon.com/shop/professor...

Academic References
Blackshaw, G. (2007). The pathological body: Modernist strategising in Egon Schiele's self-portraiture. Oxford Art Journal, 30(3), 377-401.
Choi, Y. J., and Ha, J. H. (2017). Death Instinct and Creativity: With Works of Egon Schiele. Psychoanalysis, 28(3), 58-68.
Erbguth, F. J. (2010). Egon Schiele and dystonia. In Neurological Disorders in Famous Artists-Part 3 (Vol. 27, pp. 46-60). Karger Publishers.
Knafo, D. (2013). Egon Schiele's self-portraits: A psychoanalytic study in the creation of a self. In The Annual of Psychoanalysis, V. 19 (pp. 59-90).

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Images
Wikimedia
Leopold museum
Egon Schiele Online
Library of congress

Music:
Arnold Schoenberg: String Quartet No. 2 op. 10 -Carmel String Quartet, with soprano Rona Israel-Kolatt. CC3
Mahler Symphony No. 5 -Peabody Symphony Orchestra. CCO
Mahler Symphony No.6 Recorded and played by Reinhold Behringer CC3.0
Vladan L. Kuzmanović, Prelude For Broken Piano No. 2, Conceptual piece, 2019 CC4.0
Friedrich Nietzsche - Albumblatt.
Vladan L. Kuzmanović: Technical Etude no. 1 for Piano in C Major, called Walter Etude, CC4.0
Cinus Laurent - Prélude n°2. Free Art Licence.
Misha Dioxin - Home World by CC4.0
Misha Dioxin - Aurora CC4.0
Chris Zabriskie Prelude No. 15
Kosta T Castello di Trokai 7 and 8 CC4