
Richard Gerstl
The Great Masters of Art
Diethard Leopold(Author)
Hirmer (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published in July 2016
Book
Hardback
80 pages
978-3-7774-2622-8 (ISBN)
Description
The art academy failed to recognise his talent; he rejected the contemporary art scene in Vienna; and his visionary work was largely neglected during his lifetime: the painter Richard Gerstl (18831908), whose creative period lasted for just four intensive years, is regarded today as one of the most important representatives of Austrian Expressionism for his portraits and landscapes. With his early pictures Self-Portrait against a Blue Background and The Sisters Karoline and Pauline Frey Richard Gerstl began to create an oeuvre which was well ahead of his times and which made him one of the pioneers of Abstract Expressionism. In 1906 Gerstl met the musician Arnold Schönberg. He embarked upon an affair with the latters wife Mathilde, who briefly left her husband but then returned to him in 1908. Gerstl not only lost his lover but was also socially isolated; he committed suicide during that same year. His work sank into oblivion and it was only twenty years later that it was presented to the public by the Viennese art dealer Otto Kallir-Nirenstein for the first time: Gerstl had never exhibited his paintings during his lifetime.
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Language
English
Place of publication
München
Germany
Illustrations
52 Abb.
Dimensions
Height: 20.5 cm
Width: 14 cm
Weight
280 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-7774-2622-8 (9783777426228)
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Diethard Leopold, geboren 1956, Sohn des Kunstsammlers Rudolf Leopold, studierte Germanistik, Theologie und Psychologie an der Universität Wien. Leopold arbeitete als Psychotherapeut (Gestalttherapie) in Wien und ist dort seit 2008 als Kurator am Leopold Museum tätig. Er kuratierte zahlreiche Ausstellungen und publizierte Bücher sowie Katalogbeiträge insbesondere zum Thema 'Kunst und Kultur in Wien um 1900'.
ISNI: 0000 0003 8541 1919
ISNI: 0000 0003 8541 1919