CulBeat Express
2017.06.29 17:05
리하르트 게르스틀@노이에 갈러리(6/29-9/25)
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Richard Gerstl
June 29-Sept. 25, 2017
@Neue Galerie
"The concussive force of the works on display at the Neue Galerie
may bring the renown that [Gerstl] richly deserves."
- The New Yorker
Richard Gerstl (1883-1908) was an extremely original artist whose psychologically intense figure paintings and landscapes constitute a radically unorthodox oeuvre that defied the reigning concepts of style and beauty during his time.
Approximately 55 paintings and works on paper are on display, including portraits, frontal nude figures, highly gestural group portraits, landscapes, and comparative works by Gerstl’s artistic contemporaries. A special gallery is devoted to Gerstl’s relationship with the leading Austrian composer Arnold Schönberg. Gerstl’s friendship with Schönberg abruptly ended in 1908 upon the disclosure of the love affair between the artist and Schönberg’s wife Mathilde.
The longstanding secrecy surrounding Gerstl’s dramatic and untimely suicide at the age of 25, and the scandalous love affair that preceded his death, only further magnify the legend that has grown around this lesser-known, but groundbreaking member of Vienna’s artistic avant-garde at the turn of the twentieth century.
LECTURE
Thursday, June 29, 6:30 p.m.
Curator Jill Lloyd presents
"Richard Gerstl's Internationalism"
