Klimt Schiele : drawings from the Albertina Musuem, Vienna / exhibition curators, Désirée de Chair, Sarah Lea ; translation from the German, (Marian Bisanz-Prakken) : Michael Foster.

9781910350942 (hardcover)
191035094X (hardcover)
9781912520145 (paperback)
1912520141 (paperback)

London : Royal Academy of Arts, [2018]

English

189 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 30 cm

NC245.K553 A4 2018

741.9436
709.04

Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) and his younger protege Egon Schiele (1890-1918) are considered two of the greatest figures of Austrian Modernism. Whether competing with or inspiring one another, together they reconfigured the way the human body was translated into art. Although both artists are primarily remembered as painters, between them they left 7,000 drawings, many of the greatest of which are now in the collection of the Albertina Museum, Vienna.0In 2018 an exhibition opens in London of both artists' drawings from the Albertina. This stunning publication records these precious works, which are very rarely displayed and almost never travel, in all their erotic, intriguing and sometimes disturbing beauty. Leading experts on the period provide authoritative texts that illuminate the important relationship between the two artists. They analyse the role of drawing in their practice and chart the response of early twentieth-century Vienna to their electrifying work, which still has the power to shock and enthral to this day. Exhibition: Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK (04.11.2018 - 02.02.2019).

First published on the occasion of the exhibition "Klimt / Schiele: Drawings from the Albertina Museum, Vienna", Royal Academy of Arts, London, 4 November 2018 - 3 February 2019.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 186-187) and index.

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