{"product_id":"egon-schiele-2","title":"Egon Schiele","description":"\u003cp\u003eAfter \u003cstrong\u003eEgon Schiele\u003c\/strong\u003e (1890–1918) freed himself from the shadow of his mentor and role model \u003cstrong\u003eGustav Klimt\u003c\/strong\u003e, he had just ten years to inscribe his signature style into the \u003cstrong\u003eannals of modernity\u003c\/strong\u003e before the Spanish flu claimed his life. Being a child prodigy quite aware of his own genius and a \u003cstrong\u003epassionate provocateur\u003c\/strong\u003e, this didn’t prove to be too big a challenge.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e His \u003cstrong\u003ehaggard, overstretched figures\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003edrastic depiction of sexuality\u003c\/strong\u003e, and \u003cstrong\u003eself-portraits\u003c\/strong\u003e in which he staged himself with emaciated facial expressions \u003cstrong\u003ebordering between brilliance and madness\u003c\/strong\u003e had none of the decorative quality of Klimt’s hymns of love, eroticism, and yearning devotion. Instead, Schiele’s work spoke of a \u003cstrong\u003ebrutal honesty\u003c\/strong\u003e, one that would upset and irreversibly change Viennese society.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Although his works were later defamed as “degenerate” and for a time were almost forgotten altogether, they \u003cstrong\u003einfluenced generations of artists\u003c\/strong\u003e—from \u003cstrong\u003eGünter Brus\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003eFrancis Bacon\u003c\/strong\u003e to \u003cstrong\u003eTracey Emin\u003c\/strong\u003e. Today, his formerly misunderstood oeuvre continues to fetch exorbitant prices on the international art market.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDerived from the best-selling XXL edition \u003c\/strong\u003efor which many works were\u003cstrong\u003e newly photographed\u003c\/strong\u003e, this definitive book retraces \u003cstrong\u003ethe fertile last decade of Schiele’s life\u003c\/strong\u003e in nearly \u003cstrong\u003e600 illustrations\u003c\/strong\u003e. The \u003cstrong\u003e221 paintings\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003e146 drawings\u003c\/strong\u003e are accompanied by \u003cstrong\u003eexcerpts from Schiele’s countless writings and poems\u003c\/strong\u003e, as well as essays introducing his life and oeuvre, to situate the Austrian master in the context of European Expressionism and trace his extraordinary legacy.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57763231727989,"sku":"9783836581813","price":80.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9783836581813.jpg?v=1794558350","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/egon-schiele-2","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}