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Artist:
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Egon Schiele
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Title:
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Portrait of Paris von Gütersloh (1887-1973)
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Date:
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1918
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Medium:
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Oil on canvas
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Dimensions:
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55 1/8 x 43 7/16 in. (140.02 x 110.33 cm) (canvas)
64 x 52 x 2 3/16 in. (162.56 x 132.08 x 5.56 cm) (outer frame)
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Credit Line:
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Gift of the P. D. McMillan Land Company
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Location:
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Gallery 377
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Due to Schiele's death from an influenza epidemic in 1918, he never completed this painting of his friend Paris von Gütersloh. Nonetheless, it remains a masterpiece of Austrian Expressionist portraiture. Gütersloh was a painter, writer, actor, producer, and stage designer, who wrote the first study of Schiele's art in 1911. Schiele admired his friend's extraordinary intellectual and artistic talents and sought to portray him as a creative genius. With his hands elevated in a gesture of both attraction and repulsion, Gütersloh is shown with his eyes transfixed and body tense at the moment of artistic inspiration.
Recent conservation of this picture was made possible by a generous contribution from an anonymous patron through the Adopt-a-Painting program.
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Artist/Creator(s)
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Name:
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Schiele, Egon
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Nationality:
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Austrian
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Life Dates:
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Austrian, 1890 - 1918
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Object Description
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Inscriptions:
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Signature and Date LR in deep red: [Egon Schiele 1918]
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Classification:
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Paintings
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Physical Description:
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The subject of this painting is Schiele's close friend, Paris von Gütersloh (1887-1973), a painter, actor, writer and stage designer.
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Creation Place:
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Europe, Austria, , ,
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Accession #:
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54.30
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Owner:
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The Minneapolis Institute of Arts
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