How did the fates of two artists, Klimt and Schiele, who shook society intertwine with each other?

Draw a woman with brilliant colorsGustav KlimtIt is known for its luscious and spiritual style, but the work has rooted in the conspicuous anti-spirituality against the conservative art world, and it is something to be mentioned, sometimes it is possible to take out a shotgun for a work. Such Klimt is a 30-year-old painter away from the yearEgon SchieleThere was a deep bond. BBC wrote how the life of Schiele and Klimt who used his own nude sketch as a work was intertwined.

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It was the artist group called Kunstlerhaus that had an exhibition hall in Vienna at the end of the 19th century. However, Kunstler House was conservative, and the artists of Vienna felt as obliged to belong to Kunstler House. Klimt and others dissatisfied with itVienna separatistWe formed.

byAnton Josef Trčka

"Nuda Veritas(Naked truth) ", the work produced by Klimt was said to be" provocative ", and it was a style conflicting directly from Kunstler House. The naked truth is that a naked woman stands holding a mirror of truth with one hand and a "false snake" is dead on her feet. And above the female head in German, "If your actions and arts can not please everyone, please please only a few people. It is a bad thing to please a lot of people "It is written.


In 1894, Klimt who received fame as a decorator was asked three points of ceiling painting of the large hall of Vienna University as "philosophy" "law" "medicine". The university initially asked for the creation of paintings that sang victories of science and enlightenment movements, and he was unaware of Klimt's new direction. The completed paintings deny the superiority of reason, contrary to the intention of the university. Since naked body of women was drawn in the painting of "philosophy", 87 college members opposed to making the painting public to the public. I asked the Ministry of Education to cancel the order.

And when the whole picture of "medical science" suffered by naked women is revealed, it has evolved into a further disturbance. In this painting, the vulva of a woman was clearly drawn at an angle from the bottom, and Klimt was charged with punishment for pornography and a situation where discussion was done at the Imperial Diet session. It seems this was the first time that the cultural issues were discussed at the Imperial Diet.

When Law was released after that, Congress stood on Klimt side, but finally it was decided that the painting was permanently decorated in the gallery, not the wall of the hall. Klimt claimed to keep the painting at hand instead of returning the advance money, but the Ministry of Education rejected this request on the assumption that paintings are already in the state. However, it seems that Kimuto was able to regain painting as a result of threatening the staff who are removing the painting with a shotgun. However, in the end three paintings were forfeited by the Nazis and destroyed, only black-and-white photographs and studies of "medicine" were left.


Further announced in 1902 "GoldfishIn his work, I am clarifying how to look at people who criticize my paintings. It seems that Klimt had called this painting with a naked woman's butt in the title "to my critics".


In Klimt's work, there are a lot of beautiful golden colors used, but below it there are dirty reality drawn. This "dirty reality" means that women are being given men's desires. The same can be said for Klimt 's work "Kiss", "Kiss" is a seemingly beautiful painting, but "If you look closely, the neck of a man is ugly screwed, this is drawing an upright penis. It is a very delicate and adorable painting on the surface, but men are anthropomorphic of libido. "Leopold Museum"Said Diethard Leopold, a curator.


Klimt's uncompromising attitude had a major impact on the young painter Egon Schiele. Schiele had bloomed the talent of painting from a young age, but his parents were anxious about his sister 's nude sketch etc. Mr. Leopold, also a psychotherapist, saw that Sile was fascinated by a young girl as a result of her relationship with her mother.


At that time, Schiele studying as a student at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts was recruiting school disappointment. Krimt was born in 1862 and Egonseire was born in 1890, so the year is far away from the age of 30, but Klimt is honored by such talent of Schiele, providing a model, decorating paintings at exhibitions and supporting talent Did. However, the four paintings decorated at the 1909 exhibition says that they could not give a big impact to the viewers. Klimt alsoVienna StudioShe introduced Schiele to a member of the group, and Schiele gave them a watercolor postcard, but "Decorative ArtThere is no elegance of "is refused receipt as.

After seeking a new expression method, Schiele later used his own body as the source of inspiration. In 1907, based on Klimt's "Medicine", I draw my own nude as a portrait for the first time. "Self-made nude picture" tried by Schiele was unprecedented. Schiele painted himself in portrait as "lacking, unbearable, broken, lonely existence left behind by others".


Schiele was advancing experimental style, but it was hard to accept in Vienna at that time. So Schiele began living together in Krumlov city of the Czech Republic with Wally which was originally a model of Klimt. Then, women who felt attractive to Schiele began to visit the house, and Schiele began drawing pictures using them as models. As soon the gossip spread, and she was drawing naked girls in the garden as a model, Schiele will be driven out of the town.

In Austria's Neuregbach where he lived next, Seire and Wally were hiding the girls who ran away, touched the father's inverse scalp and Schiele was arrested for kidnapping. When the police investigated Schiele's home, 125 watercolors of nude were seized and 125 works were seized and eventually kidnapped was innocent, but watercolor painting was sentenced as imprisonment for 3 days as "triggering a wandering" It was.

Since this incident turned into a turning point, Schiele did not draw a girl nude since. Klimt will introduce Schiele as his portrait painter to his clients and Schiele will marry Edith, a daughter of a middle class craftsman who is more acceptable to society.

When World War I approached the end, in 1918, Klimt will hold the 49th Vienna Separation Exhibition and will display 50 works by Schiele. Schiele's works, which had not been well-known until then, gathered large orders and the value of paintings rose. At this time, Schiele who painted his own nude portrait depicts works "Friends", Schiele is Klimt, and other artists are sitting on a single table, so you can see the change in the mind.


However, in response to the death of Klimt in February 1918, Schiele has changed "Friends" for the posters of the exhibition in such a way that Klimt's seat is vacant. And although it is Schiele who finally established a standing position in Vienna 's art world, on October 28, eight months after Klimt' s death, his wife Aidit died while taking Chile 's child caught in a Spanish flu. Schiele also finished his life on October 31 so as to follow.