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The Untold Mystery Upending Egon Schiele's Legacy

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27 points apollinaire | 4 comments | 03 Apr 25 23:14 UTC | HN request time: 1.164s | source
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ggm ◴[03 Apr 25 23:23 UTC] No.43576657[source]▶
So let's be clear: it's implicitly incest, right? One denial in this article aside, he appears to have encouraged if not caused his younger sisters eroticism as a pre teen, took her away to share a room in the hotel his parents honeymooned in, changed his art after entering a relationship. Nobody knows who the child's father is, fair enough. His pre marriage art was unquestionably "edgy"

Amazing paintings. Also, amazingly disturbing. I cannot conceive of having one on the wall.

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1. hiddencost ◴[07 Apr 25 14:26 UTC] No.43611912[source]▶
It's very stark, touring a gallery show of Schiele.

Every single piece is grotesque except that work portraying his sister.

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3. paganel ◴[07 Apr 25 15:41 UTC] No.43612746[source]▶
That's how art is supposed to be, to raise something inside the one experiencing it. For those that want a more mundane experience from the same time-period there's also a Sargent and countless others like him.

For reference, the one Schiele exhibition that I got to attend took place more than 15 years ago, at the Leopold Museum in Vienna itself, and for sure I didn't see it as grotesque. I was more mesmerised later that day by the Egyptian art hosted in the nearby Kunsthistorisches Museum

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4. khazhoux ◴[07 Apr 25 17:41 UTC] No.43613985[source]▶
I saw that same exhibition in Vienna! 2007 IIRC.

I agree that it never struck me as grotesque. His work is bold, stark, urgent. I also find that his draftsmanship is overshadowed. He has an amazing sense of volume, told with simple linework. And his hand renderings are sublime.