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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 (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
Jun 22, 2017 · One visitor was the brilliant, unstable young painter Richard Gerstl, whose works are the subject of a forthcoming exhibition at the Neue Galerie. On November 4, 1908, Gerstl—who had recently ...
The three characters were Richard Gerstl (below left), born 1883, a young, withdrawn, difficult artist who, despite painting some of the most extraordinary works of his time, killed himself in 1908, never having exhibited in his lifetime; Arnold Schönberg (right), a famous and extraordinarily influential composer, who was the first to write ...
Jul 19, 2017 · July 19, 2017. Any review of the Austrian painter Richard Gerstl must first get his sensational suicide out of the way. On Nov. 4, 1908, barely 25, Gerstl burned an unknown number of papers ...
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Richard Gerstl, c. 1902. On September 14, 1883, Richard Gerstl was born in Vienna as the third son of Emil and Maria Gerstl, born Pfeiffer. The father originally comes from the Hungarian diocese Neutra and is of Jewish descent. As a business man, he has earned a considerable fortune, whereby the family can live in good-middle-class circumstances.
The Main Characters. The two most depicted subjects, Mathilde Schönberg and Gerstl himself, were, however, dead. Mathilde, Arnold Schönberg’s wife, a tiny, dowdy mother of two, had distressingly died of adrenal cancer in October 1923; Gerstl, a taciturn and moody, difficult young man had killed himself in November 1908 after becoming ...
