Richard Gerstl
By: edited by Jill Lloyd and Ingrid Pfeiffer in collaboration with Raymond Coffer ; with preface by Ronald S. Lauder ; foreword by Renée Price ; and essays by Raymond Coffer, Jane Kallir, Diethard Leopold, Jill Lloyd, Ingrid Pfeiffer, Maria Sitte and Karol Winiarczyk
Contributors: Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt; Neue Galerie New York
Publisher: Hirmer Verlag GmbH
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 239
ISBN-13: 9783777427546; 9783777429434
Subjects: Austrian Painting; Expressionism (Art); Portrait painting; Exhibitions
Description: The Viennese artist Richard Gerstl is still regarded as being an insider tip. And yet he was one of the most important artists in Vienna in around 1900, alongside Klimt, Schiele and Kokoschka. Although he was only 25 years old when he died, he created an exciting and unusual oeuvre. This volume accompanying the first comprehensive retrospective in Germany introduces all the aspects of this exceptional artist. The artistic career of Richard Gerstl (1883-1908) extended over only approximately five years. During his lifetime he refused to allow his work to be exhibited in any way. As a result of his dramatic early death by his own hand many of his works were destroyed and almost no personal belongings have survived. The present work on his entire oeuvre finally fills the gap this has left. In his subjects portraits, landscapes and nude paintings, including the first nude self-portrait by an artist since Dürer, Gerstl succeeded in freeing his style from that of Salon painting. He applied the paint in an increasingly pastose and free manner and created pictures which are regarded as some of the most modern works of his time.--
Notes: Published on the occasion of an exhibition held at Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, February 24-May 14, 2017, and Neue Galerie New York, June 29-September 25, 2017.

"Hirmer" publisher from book jacket.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Richard Gestl" : June 29-September 25, 2017, Neue Galerie New York, New York, New York, United States.

"Richard Gestl" : February 24-May 14, 2017, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany.

Text in English, translated from the German.