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Jun 22, 2017 · June 22, 2017. A Richard Gerstl self-portrait dated September 12, 1908. Courtesy Leopold Museum / Neue Galerie. “If suicide is allowed, then everything is allowed,” Ludwig Wittgenstein once ...
Richard Gerstl (14 September 1883 – 4 November 1908) was an Austrian painter and draughtsman known for his expressive psychologically insightful portraits, his lack of critical acclaim during his lifetime, and his affair with the wife of Arnold Schoenberg which led to his suicide. Richard Gerstl was born in a prosperous civil family, Emil ...
- Austrian
- September 14, 1883
- Vienna, Austria
- November 4, 1908
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Richard Gerstl. Richard Gerstl (14 September 1883 – 4 November 1908) was an Austrian painter and draughtsman known for his expressive psychologically insightful portraits, his lack of critical acclaim during his lifetime, and his affair with the wife of Arnold Schoenberg, which led to his suicide.
- Painting, drawing
- Austrian
- Expressionism
- Semi-nude Self-portrait against a Blue Background (1904/5), Schönberg Family (1908)
Richard Gerstl 1908. Leopold Museum. Vienna, Austria. After his failed love affair with Mathilde Schönberg, Gerstl became socially isolated. The depiction of his naked body with emphasized genitals shows him as a helpless, defenseless person, cast into the hands of fate. It is, at the same time, a provocation aimed at the society of the day.
Richard Gerstl, Semi-Nude Self-Portrait. 1904/05. Richard Gerstl’s Semi-Nude Self-Portrait is one of his earliest depictions of himself and also one of the most radical. Against a blue background, the artist presents himself in defenseless frontal view, in which he bares his lean upper body, with only a loincloth wrapped around his hips.
The painter Richard Gerstl (1883–1908) chooses an academic image type for this self-portrait. The bust portrait in three-quarter profile shows a young man in respectable, representative clothing. His narrow, exaggeratedly drooping shoulders are conspicuous. The right, asymmetrical eye casts a disturbing, wild glance with a menacing gleam. The fact that his upper body is not at all truncated ...
This intimate studio self-portrait can be convincingly dated to the winter of 1906-07 based upon the presence of the Richard Gerstl ’s earlier picture, Professor Ernst Diez (1906), hanging in the background. This painting was most likely completed in Gerstl’s individual studio at Vienna’s Academy of Fine Arts, where he was a student in ...
