Vienna

Nerves Exposed

Gerstl, Schiele and Schoenberg in Vienna, 1905–1918

In Vienna the break with tradition came through line, the body and the self-portrait more than through color. Younger painters, working in the long shadow of Klimt (see the Post-Impressionism section), turned portraits into studies of nerves and desire. The story here ends in 1918, the year the war ended and influenza swept the city.

• Richard Gerstl's short, isolated career
• Egon Schiele's self-portraits, double portraits and figure groups, 1912–1918
• A composer who painted, and a portrait print

Works in this part

• The Sisters Karoline and Pauline Fey
• Self-Portrait, Laughing
• Self-Portrait with Chinese Lantern Plant
• Portrait of Wally Neuzil
• Death and Maiden
• The Embrace
• Mother with Two Children III
• Squatting Couple (The Family)
• Blue Self-Portrait
• Portrait of Franz Hauer

Image: Wikimedia Commons · PD-Art