Detail View: The AMICA Library: Portrait of Paris von Gütersloh
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AMICA ID:
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MIA_.54.30
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AMICA Library Year:
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1998
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Object Type:
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Paintings
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Creator Name:
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Schiele, Egon
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Creator Nationality:
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European; Central European; Austrian
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Creator Role:
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painter
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Creator Dates/Places:
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1890 - 1918
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Gender:
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M
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Creator Name-CRT:
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Egon Schiele
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Title:
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Portrait of Paris von Gütersloh
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View:
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Front
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Creation Date:
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1918
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Creation Start Date:
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1918
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Creation End Date:
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1918
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Materials and Techniques:
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oil on canvas
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Classification Term:
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Oil On Canvas
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Dimensions:
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H.55-1/8 x W.43-7/16 in.
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Component Measured:
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overall
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Measurement Unit:
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in
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AMICA Contributor:
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The Minneapolis Institute of Arts
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Owner Location:
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Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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ID Number:
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54.30
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Credit Line:
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Gift of the P.D.McMillan Land Company
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Inscriptions:
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SIGNATURE,DATE
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Rights:
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Context:
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Due to Schiele's death from an influenza epidemic in 1918, he never completed this painting of his friend Paris von Gütersloh. Nonetheless, it remains a masterpiece of Austrian Expressionist portraiture. Gütersloh was a painter, writer, actor, producer, and stage designer, who wrote the first study of Schiele's art in 1911. Schiele admired his friend's extraordinary intellectual and artistic talents and sought to portray him as a creative genius. With his hands elevated in a gesture of both attraction and repulsion, Gütersloh is shown with his eyes transfixed and body tense at the moment of artistic inspiration. |
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Related Image Identifier Link:
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MIA_.124c.tif
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