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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

by ggm 2y ago

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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hiddencost 2y ago
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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- paganel 2y ago
  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
  - khazhoux 2y ago
    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.
vilhelm_s 2y ago
Surely the child's father was Anton Peschka? Gertrude was engaged to him, later married him, and his mother raised the child. I don't think the article suggests otherwise.
alwa 2y ago
The “mystery”? I took it to be the arc of her out-of-wedlock pregnancy with her first daughter Gerti—the new awareness of which makes sense of his sister Gertrude’s shotgun marriage to the best friend Anton, and Schiele’s abrupt stylistic shift and change in lifestyle afterward. Apparently they hid her well.

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hiddencost 2y ago

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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paganel 2y ago
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
- khazhoux 2y ago
  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.

vilhelm_s 2y ago

Surely the child's father was Anton Peschka? Gertrude was engaged to him, later married him, and his mother raised the child. I don't think the article suggests otherwise.

alwa 2y ago

The “mystery”? I took it to be the arc of her out-of-wedlock pregnancy with her first daughter Gerti—the new awareness of which makes sense of his sister Gertrude’s shotgun marriage to the best friend Anton, and Schiele’s abrupt stylistic shift and change in lifestyle afterward. Apparently they hid her well.