Egon Schiele

Libro bellissimo, da avere. Perfetta la consegna.

If you are interested in Schiele or in Secessionist art in general you will enjoy this book. Its rather poorly titled as there are fewer landscapes than cityscapes in it but " Non-figurative Schiele" - which would be more accurate - isn't exactly snappy and might baffle. The contents cover his paintings and sketches of cityscapes, some landscapes and a few flower paintings in a wide range of media. The author neatly ties in biography, commentary and informative photographs to give a marvellous idea of Schiele's life, work and process. The text is inadvertently amusing in places as the author uses it to sternly correct the errors of other authorities on Schiele. ( You can hear his tremendous relish at knowing better in many places.) However since Dr Rudolph Leopold definitely knows his stuff about the artist and managed to give me a far more information about him, and his process, than any other of the far bigger and more expensive books on Schiele that I own, I can forgive this tendency. The quality of the reproductions is excellent and this small, relatively inexpensive Prestel book was fascinating and an excellent buy. Like many people I was well acquainted with Schiele's portraits and self-portraits but didn't know much about his other work and found this book really informative, interesting and it far exceeded my expectations. I recommend it highly.

Las ilustraciones son muy buenas, se disfrutan, así mismo, el texto, que tiene una investigación bastante detallada. ¡Una joya para leer y gozar!

My wife and I visited the gallery ostensibly to see Klimt's work - The Kiss was in a separate gallery! I was not familiar with Klimt's Landscapes which are fabulous! However, the main attraction once in the gallery was the work of Schiele - his Landscapes are superb. We bought the two books which are inspiring and very clearly written with many examples and photographs The Klimt book mentions more of his history with "family" photographs

Egon Schiele son sorprende con este libro, donde descubres que además de su particular estilo en la figura humana, lo sabe trasladar en una infinidad de representaciones del entorno donde él vivió o viajó, mostrando la foto original del lugar y su particular adaptación al dibujo. Exquisito!