Title
Poster for the Vienna Secession 49th exhibition
1918
Artist
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Details
- Date
- 1918
- Media category
- Materials used
- colour lithograph
- Dimensions
- 67.8 x 53.2 cm sheet
- Signature & date
Signed and dated c.r., [inscribed on stone] "Egon/ Schiele/ 1918".
- Credit
- Purchased 1979
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 167.1979
- Copyright
- Artist information
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Egon Schiele
Works in the collection
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About
Schiele studied at the Vienna Academy, coming under the influence of the heightened art nouveau of Gustav Klimt. He rapidly evolved his own style, redirecting the symbolist intensity of his mentor towards a more psychological, and indeed more modern, focus. In this Schiele echoed the new psychoanalytical theories of Sigmund Freud as well as his own subjective and often neurotic intimations. His view of human nature, graphically evidenced in the prolific drawings, paintings and prints that constitute his short career, was filtered through a prodigious eroticism. This poster for the last Secessionist exhibition in which he participated is based on a slightly earlier painting, photographically transferred to the lithographic plate before being reworked by the artist. Suggesting a Christ-like centrality not out of keeping with his personality, Schiele represents himself at the head of a table of friends, a number of whom have the tonsures of monks. Beyond its collegiate message, the print impresses as a formal arrangement of stark reductivity.
Art Gallery Handbook, 1999.
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Exhibition history
Shown in 5 exhibitions
Three years on: acquisitions 1978-81, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 15 Oct 1981–01 Dec 1981
The edge of the world, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 05 Jul 1985–25 Aug 1985
Fin de Siècle: posters prints drawings from the collection of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 15 Jan 1994–13 Mar 1994
Modernism 1900-1950: prints and drawings from the collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 23 Jul 1994–25 Sep 1994
Secession: Modern art and design in Austria and Germany 1980s-1920s, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 06 May 2000–06 Aug 2000
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Bibliography
Referenced in 7 publications
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Christine Dixon, Secession: Modern art and design in Austria and Germany 1890s-1920s, 'Vienna: The great secession', pg.23-29, Canberra, 2000, 29. no catalogue numbers
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Nicolas Draffin, Art Gallery of New South Wales handbook, 'Prints & Drawings', pg. 109-124, Sydney, 1988, 115 (colour illus.).
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Nicolas Draffin, Three years on: a selection of acquisitions 1978-1981, 'Prints and Drawings - Australia, European and American', pg. 47-66, Sydney, 1981, 47 (colour illus.), 59. cat.no. 25
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Renée Free, Modernism 1900-1950: prints and drawings from the collection, Sydney, 1994. no catalogue numbers
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Renée Free, Fin de Siècle, Sydney, Jan 1994. no catalogue numbers
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Renée Free, AGNSW Collections, 'The Western Heritage, Renaissance to Twentieth Century', pg. 108-172, Sydney, 1994, 151 (colour illus.).
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Bruce James, Art Gallery of New South Wales handbook, 'Western Collection: Works on Paper', pg. 78-92, Sydney, 1999, 90 (colour illus.).
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