Death and maiden
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| Death and maiden |
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| Egon Schiele , 1915 |
| Oil on canvas |
| 150 × 180 cm |
| Austrian Gallery Belvedere |
Death and the Maiden is an expressionist painting by the Austrian painter Egon Schiele from 1915, which is exhibited in the Upper Belvedere of the Austrian Gallery . Schiele initially named the large picture measuring 150 × 180 centimeters as man and girl and also entwined people .
The painting was created at a time when the painter, after marrying Edith Harms , was drafted into military service in the First World War and did it in a law firm near Vienna . The presence of death, but also the connection between death and Eros in several of his works from this period, is associated with it. In this painting he uses has been for the Renaissance -known motif of death and girls : the woman clutching the shape as a lover of death, not as a framework, but in a monk's robe represented, loses its horror. In the reception, a comparison is made with Oskar Kokoschka's 1914 painting The Bride of the Wind and it is thus established that the artists who developed in opposite directions touched each other in the beginning.
The title of the painting is eponymous for the feature film Egon Schiele: Death and Girls from 2016 by director Dieter Berner based on the biographical novel Death and Girls: Egon Schiele and the Women by Hilde Berger .
literature
- Hilde Berger: Death and Maiden. Egon Schiele and the women , Böhlau, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-205-78378-7
Web links
- Homepage Austrian Gallery Belvedere: Masterpieces by Egon Schiele
- Death and the Maiden by Egon Schiele In: Digitales Belvedere
Individual evidence
- ^ Erwin Mitsch: Egon Schiele 1890–1918 , Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, Munich 1975, ISBN 3-423-01064-9 , p. 47