| Abstrakt: |
Like his portraits of people, Egon Schiele's landscape paintings are rarely pretty but often striking. Relatively early in his tragically short career - the Austrian artist died of influenza in 1918 at age 28 - the young painter moved on from sketching idylls of nature and quaint village scenes to create autumnal views of spindly trees, dying flowers and cityscapes stuffed with habitation but almost always devoid of people. These are not the works for which he is most famous, even revered, but an exhibition at the Neue Galerie suggests that they were animated by the same obsessions that make Schiele's human figures feel so utterly exposed, both naked and nude - raw, vulnerable yet unashamed. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER] |
