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Egon Schiele and the Modernist Culture of Youth |
| Section: THE ARTS / ART |
| Author: Jane Kallir |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/2006 |
| Size: 2,230 Words, 15,014 Characters |
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Like all great artists, Egon Schiele (1890-1918) transcended the specific circumstances of his personal and historical background, while nevertheless being indelibly marked by them. Reaching creative maturity shortly before his twentieth birthday, he is surely one of the youngest modernist superstars.
However, Schiele was not entirely alone: the fin-de-siecle culture that spawned him and his Expressionist comrades was uniquely oriented to youth. It was within an overall culture of youth that Schiele, the quintessential artist of adolescence, flourished. This fall, as two major Schiele retrospectives, one at the Neue Galerie in New York (October 21-February 20) and a second at the Albertina Museum in Vienna (December 7-March 19), celebrate the artist's imprint on our present-day mindset,...
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...ovement that had begun so hopefully with the Secessionists' call for creative freedom ended in the rigid lockstep of the Hitler Youth.
WHAT: "Coming of Age: Egon Schiele and the Modernist Culture of Youth"
WHERE: Galerie St. Etienne, 24 West 57th Street, New York, NY 10019. Tel: 212/245-6734
WHEN: November 15, 2005 through January 7, 2006
© 2005 Galerie St. Etienne (www.gseart.com)
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