Richard Gerstl : retrospective /

Richard Gerstl : retrospective /

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Imprint:	[Munich] : Hirmer ; [Frankfurt-am-Main] : Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt ; New York : Ronald S. Lauder Neue Galerie, Museum for German and Austrian Art, 2017. ©2017
Description:	239 pages ; 30 cm 239 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 30 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Gerstl, Richard, -- 1883-1908 -- Exhibitions. Gerstl, Richard, -- 1883-1908. Portrait painting. Expressionism (Art) Austria. Illustrated works. Exhibition catalogs.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11291949

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Other authors / contributors:	Lloyd, Jill, editor, writer of supplementary textual content. Pfeiffer, Ingrid, editor, writer of supplementary textual content. Sitte, Maria, writer of supplementary textual content. Winiarczyk, Karol, 1981- writer of supplementary textual content. Coffer, Raymond, editor, writer of supplementary textual content. Lauder, Ronald S., writer of preface. Price, Renée, writer of preface. Leopold, Diethard, writer of supplementary textual content. Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, issuing body, host institution. Neue Galerie New York, issuing body, host institution.
ISBN:	9783777427546 3777427543
Notes:	Published on the occasion of an exhibition held at Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, February 24-May 14, 2017, and Neue Galerie New York, June 29-September 25, 2017. "Hirmer" publisher from book jacket. Includes bibliographical references. Includes bibliographical references (pages 184-185).
Summary:	The Viennese artist Richard Gerstl is still regarded as being an insider tip. And yet he was one of the most important artists in Vienna in around 1900, alongside Klimt, Schiele and Kokoschka. Although he was only 25 years old when he died, he created an exciting and unusual oeuvre. This volume accompanying the first comprehensive retrospective in Germany introduces all the aspects of this exceptional artist. The artistic career of Richard Gerstl (1883?1908) extended over only approximately five years. During his lifetime he refused to allow his work to be exhibited in any way. As a result of his dramatic early death by his own hand many of his works were destroyed and almost no personal belongings have survived. The present work on his entire oeuvre finally fills the gap this has left. In his subjects portraits, landscapes and nude paintings, including the first nude self-portrait by an artist since Dürer, Gerstl succeeded in freeing his style from that of Salon painting. He applied the paint in an increasingly pastose and free manner and created pictures which are regarded as some of the most modern works of his time.--

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Summary:	Richard Gerstl (1883-1908) has recently emerged from the shadows of his contemporaries Gustav Klimt, Oskar Kokoschka, and Egon Schiele to be ranked by art historians as one of the leading artists of the Vienna-based Austria expressionist movement at the beginning of the twentieth century. This lush catalog of his work introduces this significant artist to a broad, international audience.<br> <br> <br> <br> Gerstl painted for just four to six years before his tragic suicide at age twenty-five. Because he had refused to show his work during his lifetime, he was for many years largely overlooked. But his portraits and landscapes like Self Portrait Against a Blue Background and The Fey Sisters are today regarded by both the academy and the art world as some of best examples of Austrian expressionism for their ability to evoke a visceral, emotional response in viewers through their distorted forms and exaggeratedly expressive use of color. With more than eighty works by Gerstl, this book provides a comprehensive portrait of his amazingly short, but powerfully prolific career.<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br>
Item Description:	Published on the occasion of an exhibition held at Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, February 24-May 14, 2017, and Neue Galerie New York, June 29-September 25, 2017. "Hirmer" publisher from book jacket.
Physical Description:	239 pages ; 30 cm 239 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 30 cm
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references. Includes bibliographical references (pages 184-185).
ISBN:	9783777427546 3777427543