#edith schiele

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Egon Schiele (1890-1918)

Portrait of Edith Schiele

Drawing on paper

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Egon Schiele (Austrian, 1890-1918), Bildnis Edith Schiele [Portrait of Edith Schiele], 1915. Pencil on paper, 46 x 31 cm.

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Edith Schiele on Her Deathbed by Egon Schiele

No longer able to speak, she wrote,

“I love you eternally and love you more and more infinitely and immeasurably.” - Edith Schiele

Self-portrait With Hands On Chest

Egon Schiele

1910

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Partezettel von Egon Schiele und seiner Frau Edith / Obituary notices for Egon Schiele and his wife Edith

1918

Austellung Broncia Koller-Pinell, eine Künstlerin und ihr Netzwerk, Unteres Belvedere, Wien, 2024

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Edith Schiele ❤️ geb. Harms war die Ehefrau des österreichischen Malers und Expressionisten Egon Schiele. Sie wurde als Edith Harms in Wien geboren. Die beiden lernten sich im Jahr 1914 kennen und heirateten im Jahr 1915...

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Woman with Greyhound - Egon Schiele

Dogs in Art

Woman with Greyhound (Edith Schiele), 1916, Egon Schiele

Medium: watercolor,paper

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Egon Schiele, Seated Woman with Bent Knee, also known as Sitting Woman with Legs Drawn Up or The Artist's Wife , 1917.

In 1917, Egon Schiele painted his wife Edith Harms, and titled his creation ‘Sitting Woman with Legs Drawn Up’. The portrait displays Edith sitting on the floor, resting her cheek on her left knee. The fiery red tones of her carefree hair produce a striking contrast with the vibrant greens of her loosely fitted shirt. Her look is bold and intense as she appears to be staring directly at the viewer. Her casual pose and attire create an intimate moment with onlookers.

The suggestive nature of this portrait was not an uncommon trait in Egon Schiele’s work, as he admired the controversial artistic manner of his mentor, Gustav Klimt. However, making eroticism the major theme in most of his artwork got Schiele in trouble with the law. He was imprisoned in 1912 for obscenity in his paintings, an incident that did not deter him from his erotic artwork, (although it may have motivated him to put clothes on Edith in ‘Sitting Woman with Legs Drawn Up’). Schiele created approximately 300 paintings and more than 3000 works on paper during his career.

Egon Schiele life was cut short when he died of the Spanish Influenza at just 28 years old in 1918; his pregnant wife died of the same illness a mere three days later. (x)

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rohini

rohini's presiding deity is brahma, who is said not to be concerned with morals, with 'right or wrong,' but rather simply with the act of bringing to fruition every impluse of the imagination. fantasy, desire and sexuality are deeply entwined with the symbolism and cosmic function of rohini — the red woman — the one easily aroused, and rohini is ultimately in the pursuit of pleasure, in all its various guises.

rohini seeks to uncover, unearth and experience all which causes the loins to stir, regardless of its perceived morality. It may seem that there are no limits to the sexual proclivities of Rohini, and in some instances there aren't — as in the extreme case of rohini sun native Marquis de Sade.

to quote The Hidden Octave,

"[The Marquis'] Rohini influence comes in strongly in his total disregard for laws and morality, a total abandon into all things sensually gratifying as this is not a nakshatra of discrimination, rules or any of the programming that holds man back from giving himself over to his lust. Fundamentally, Rohini is the pursuit of pleasure for its own sake.

Have a crush? Who cares if he’s a convict felon or your middle school teacher or married? Go after it."

Egon Schiele, Self-Portrait with Physalis, 1912

Egon Schiele is an artist whose mercury is in Rohini. Mercury represents the area of life that we have a practical, tangible understanding of. The placement of mercury also reflects our creations and manipulations of matter.

"Egon Leo Adolf Ludwig Schiele (12 June 1890 – 31 October 1918) was an Austrian Expressionist painter. His work is noted for its intensity and its raw sexuality, and for the many self-portraits the artist produced, including nude self-portraits. The twisted body shapes and the expressive line that characterize Schiele's paintings and drawings mark the artist as an early exponent of Expressionism. Gustav Klimt, a figurative painter of the early 20th century, was a mentor to Schiele."

Schiele's mentor, Gustav Klimt, has his venus in Rohini.

Gustav Klimt, Daphne, 1903

I will now share an excerpt of an article by Dominic Witek regarding the polarizing and deeply controversial artworks of Egon Schiele

"Created in the era of Freud, Schiele’s work can be seen as a metaphor for the psychoanalyst method of the talking cure where drawing is synonymous with speaking, revealing and releasing hopes and fears lodged in the unconscious."

Here, the author likens the work of Schiele to that of Rohini moon native Sigmund Freud.

"The broad spectrum of emotion depicted is expressed by Schiele’s various presentation of women. The different articulations of their bodies seems to convey a host of the artist’s attitudes, ranging from fear and distanced superiority, to admiration and desire for women. Indeed the artist’s relationships with women reflected these hopes and fears. He married Edith Harms, a respectable woman with whom he established a marriage based solely on friendship, continued an intimate relationship with Wally Neuzil despite attempting to end it before his marriage, and had an unusual relationship with his sister Gertrude.

[...] characterisations of the artist’s sister invite questioning on the nature of their relationship, which at least hints at the incestuous."

Brahma was condemned for incestuosly desiring his own daughter (creation) Rohini, which prompted her to adopt the form of a deer in Mrigashira to escape from her father.

"Egon was arrested in 1912 for suspected sexual harassment of underage girls. Despite this traumatic event (which he lamented extensively in his writings), he continued to depict very young women until his death.

His aesthetic mirrors Freudian attitudes in which sex is intimately related to death, the connection between the pleasure principle and the death drive, Eros and Thanatos. Freud articulated this tension in relation to women, defining the ‘castration complex’ as experiencing the fear of being castrated, while caught by an irrepressible sexual desire. Woman with Black Stockings, 1913, articulates this tension as a reclining woman lifts her skirt to reveal her sex"

It seems as though the threads of the unbridled pursuit of pleasure weave together the works, philosophies & artworks of rohini natives through the ages

To quote Jason Farago, "True morality, for Sade, entailed following your darkest and most destructive passions to their farthest possible ends, even at the expense of other human life.

To kill a man in passion was one thing, but to rationalise killing by law was barbarous.

“We rail against the passions,” [Sade] wrote, “but never think that it is from their flame that philosophy lights its torch.”

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Egon Schiele, "Portrait of the artist's wife, Edith", 1915, recovered from Santa Barbara Museum Of Art collection to its rightful owners.

“Portrait of the Artist’s Wife, Edith." [1915]

Credit…via the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office

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EGON SCHIELE - THE EMBRACE (LOVERS II), 1917

This artwork depicts a nude couple locked together in a passionate hug. Both the man and the woman have their arms wrapped around each other as their dark hair intertwines. Rather than portraying lust between the subjects, this illustrates a gentle connection. It is comfort they seek.

Valerie (Wally) Neuzil and Edith Harms were Schiele’s two most favourite muses. They were also his great loves. These two women had completely contrasting roles in Schiele’s life. Valerie (Wally) Neuzil met him in 1911, before long, she turned into his muse and lover, she features in most of his portraits. In 1915, Schiele married Edith Harms, claiming he wanted a more “socially acceptable” wife than his beloved Wally. In this masterpiece, Edith holds onto Schiele. This couple's portrait holds a unique emotional depth that is because only a few years later, they both died of qSpanish flu within three days of each other.

Schiele’s controversial side comes through in his portraits of women. He posed models in seductive positions . He was called out for this eroticism of the female form by critics. Schiele faced a scarcity of willing models in Vienna of the early 1900s. So, many of his subjects were sex workers. These women were comfortable in their bodies. Schiele’s work gives us rare and intimate glimpses at these women who often lived in the shadows.

Schiele was influenced by the emotional expression of his predecessors, Van Gogh and Munch. His emaciated forms express anguished spirits and sickly lives. This makes sense since Schiele wasn’t a cheerful person. He passed away at just 28 years old after a brief, miserable, yet productive life. Despite the limited time, Schiele created over 3,000 paintings and drawings. His art is so unique that it is instantly recognizable even today.

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SET NINE - ROUND ONE - MATCH THREE

"Seated Woman with Bent Knees" (1917 - Egon Schiele) / "De sterrennacht (The Starry Night)" (1889 - Vincent van Gogh)

SEATED WOMAN WITH BENT KNEES: this piece fucks me up because although this was painted in the 1910s it looks like she should be in 1980 (anonymous)

DER STERRENNACHT (THE STARRY NIGHT): It’s a cliche, but for good reason

The first day I saw this painting was in Kindergarten, when all three kindergarten classes had art together and the teacher tacked this painting onto the white board and said god knows what. I wasn’t listening. The moment this painting was in front of me it was all I could think about. 

I feel alone, I feel connected, I feel that quiet hush that only comes from being awake and alone at 3 am staring at the stars. It feels like drifting through the cosmos and seeing your tiny town’s beauty from all new angles. Like tumbling through the ether into a world I’ll never belong to. It makes me want to break every rule my doctor ever gave me to drive down a dirt road by myself and stay up all night staring at the stars. It makes me want to take someone with me. 

I feel lost. I feel found. 

A Starry Night Sky fucks me up. (@andtherewillalwaysbethestars)

("Seated Woman with Bent Knees" is a gouache, watercolour, and black crayon piece on paper by German artist Egon Schiele. The portrait is of his wife, Edith. It is currently held by the National Gallery Prague.

"De sterrennacht (The Starry Night)" is a famous oil on canvas piece by Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh. The piece is 73.7 cm × 92.1 cm (29.01 in × 36.26 in), and is owned by the Museum of Modern Art, but is currently on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.)

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Egon Schiele

Death and the maiden, 1915 Oil on Canvas

Created when the painter, after marrying Edith Harms, was drafted into military service in the First World War. The presence of death, but also the connection between death and eros.

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Egon Schiele

Portrait of Edith Schiele with Striped Dress, Sitting

1915

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Egon Schiele - Portrait of Edith, 1915

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"Edith Schiele, Dying". Questo commovente lavoro dell'Espressionismo è conservato presso il Leopold Museum di Vienna ed è stato realizzato nel 1918.

L'opera ritrae Edith Schiele, la moglie dell'artista, nel suo letto di morte. Realizzata con carboncino nero su carta marrone, la composizione misura 43,8x29,5 cm. Schiele, con la sua maestria nel tratto, cattura la fragilità e la sofferenza del corpo malato, esprimendo un profondo senso di empatia e introspezione.

Il disegno rappresenta Edith distesa sul letto, avvolta da lenzuola bianche. Il suo volto pallido e le sue mani affrante suggeriscono una condizione di malattia avanzata. Schiele utilizza linee intense e decise per evidenziare l'angoscia e la vulnerabilità della figura, trasmettendo una potente carica emotiva.

La scelta del carboncino nero su carta marrone conferisce all'opera un'atmosfera intima e struggente. Schiele crea un contrasto tra la morbidezza del soggetto e la ruvidezza del supporto, creando un effetto visivo che amplifica l'emozione trasmessa dall'opera.

La firma di Schiele si trova in basso a sinistra e include la data "EGON SCHIELE gez. [disegnato] 27. X. abds. [di sera] / 28. Oktober 1918". Questa specifica datazione testimonia l'importanza dell'opera nella fase finale della vita dell'artista e l'intensità emotiva che l'ha ispirata.

Non abbiamo informazioni specifiche riguardo alle mostre in cui l'opera è stata esposta. Tuttavia, possiamo affermare che "Edith Schiele, Dying" rappresenta un punto culminante della produzione artistica di Schiele ed è considerata una delle sue opere più significative.

Attraverso questo ritratto di sua moglie morente, Schiele affronta il tema universale della morte e della sofferenza umana. Il suo stile espressivo e il suo uso intenso del tratto trasmettono un senso di intimità e di connessione emotiva con lo spettatore.

L'opera di Schiele va oltre la semplice rappresentazione fisica e penetra nell'interiorità e nella psicologia del soggetto. "Edith Schiele, Dying" invita a una riflessione profonda sulla fragilità della vita, la mortalità e il valore dell'amore e dell'empatia.

- Joe Conta - Disegni di Schiele: Edith Schiele, Dying