Egon Schiele by Esther Selsdon & Jeanette Zwingerberger

Author:Esther Selsdon & Jeanette Zwingerberger [Selsdon, Esther & Zwingerberger, Jeanette]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781783102846
Publisher: Parkstone International
Published: 2013-12-16T16:00:00+00:00

PORTRAIT OF ARTHUR ROESSLER

In 1909, Schiele met the art critic Arthur Roessler at an exhibition of the New Art Group, of which he was an important, younger member. Roessler immediately appreciated the young artist’s talent and quickly became his spokesman, his collector and his agent. He also wrote some of the earliest critical studies of Schiele’s work. In this portrait of a man critical to his own career, Schiele gave his patron a dynamic, elegant bearing suited to one so influential. He does flatter Roessler but only by making him appear ascetic and important, and not by making him unfeasibly handsome. Roessler’s head and right arm turn left while his left arm and right leg turn right. This gives the portrait a sense of rather magisterial movement and counter-movement, and contains a harmony of form not often present in his work of this period. This is a coherent, smooth image with a fine rendering of detail and Roessler’s skeletal, crossed fingers add to the wonderful interior calm of the image.

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