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Schönberg Family
''Schönberg Family'' is an oil on canvas painting by Austrian painter Richard Gerstl, from 1907. Description The painting is an oil on canvas, with dimensions 109.7 x 88.8 centimeters. It is in the collection of the mumok, in Vienna. Analysis Gerstl painted a group portrait of the Arnold Schoenberg Arnold Schoenberg or Schönberg (, ; ; 13 September 187413 July 1951) was an Austrian-American composer, music theorist, teacher, writer, and painter. He is widely considered one of the most influential composers of the 20th century. He was as ... family, and gave painting lessons. References Sources *''Arts Magazine'', Volume 58, Issues 6-10, Art Digest Incorporated, 1984 {{DEFAULTSORT:Schonberg Family 1907 paintings Austrian paintings ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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. Richard Gerstl was born in a prosperous civil family to Emil Gerstl, a Jewish merchant, and Maria Pfeiffer, a non-Jewish woman. Early in his life, Gerstl decided to become an artist, much to the dismay of his father. After performing poorly in school and being forced to leave the famed Piaristengymnasium in Vienna as a result of "disciplinary difficulties," his financially stable parents provided him with private tutors. In 1898, at the age of fifteen, Gerstl was accepted into the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, where he studied under the notoriously opinionated and difficult Christian Griepenkerl. Gerstl began to reject the style of the Vienna Secession and what he felt was pretentious art. This ev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
