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Expressive nudes and self-portraits, strange movements and morbid colours Egon Schiele (1890-1918) - along with Oskar Kokoschka - is the painter who had the most long-lasting influence on the Vienna art scene after the great era of Klimt came to a close. After a short flirtation with Klimt’s style, Schiele soon questioned the aesthetic orientation to the beautiful surface of the Viennese Art Nouveau with his rough and not easily accessible paintings. Many contemporaries found Schiele’s expressive nudes and self-portraits, with their strange movements and morbid colours, to be ugly and even morally objectionable--criticism which culminated in criminalizing the painter as ’obscene’ and resulted in 1912 in an indictment and short jail sentence. However, not even his harshest critics could dispute the artist’s extraordinary drawing talent. About the Each book in TASCHEN’s Basic Art Series

The paintings of Maria-Elena Vieira da Silva are the result of a life-long search for the lost centre of the modern world. This book offers an account of that search, using the artist's paintings as markers of the journey.

Von der Kunstszene gepriesen, von Gustav Klimt gefördert, von der Gesellschaft der Jahrhundertwende als Enfant terrible verhasst und von den Behörden gejagt – so könnte man das Leben von Egon Schiele kurz zusammenfassen. Als Egon Schiele im Alter von nur 28 Jahren starb, zählte er bereits zu den bedeutendsten Künstlern der Wiener Moderne. Dass seine expressionistischen Gemälde, Skizzen und Aktzeichnungen aber zu den höchstdotierten aller Zeiten werden würden, stand zur Zeit des untergehenden Habsburgerreiches, dem letzten Aufbäumen des alten Glanzes der k. u. k. Monarchie, noch in den Sternen.