Speaking of Memory: Q&A with Neuroscientist Eric Kandel Oct 10, 2008
People such as [writer and doctor] Arthur Schnitzler, [painters] Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele, and [artist, poet and playwright] Oskar Kokoschka exchanged their ideas with scientists and other intellectuals and scientists in literary circles. Mind: Do you regard Freud as a -scientist. (Scientific American)
Judge Confirms Ownership of Egon Schiele Drawing Sep 5, 2008
Top Stories From Law. Handing a victory to an art collector who bought a drawing by Austrian expressionist from a Manhattan gallery in 1963, a federal judge has ruled there is no evidence the work was stolen by the Nazis. (Law.com)
Collector awarded Schiele drawing Sep 4, 2008
Chestnut Hill art collector David Bakalar has been declared the rightful owner of an Egon Schiele drawing by US District Court Judge William H. Pauley III. The judgment, filed this week in New York, clears the way for Bakalar to sell the 1917 drawing known as "Seated Woman with Bent Left Leg.". Two heirs of the Fritz Grunbaum's estate contested that the work was theirs because it had been seized by the Nazis. (Boston Globe)
A walk down memory's dark corridor Aug 7, 2008
The earliest paintings are earnest tributes to the European painters she admired, Paul Gauguin and Egon Schiele especially. By the time she restarts her art-making in Canada, those influences have been replaced by new ones - some local, such as Esther Warkov, from whom she borrows a muted palette, and some national, such as Alex Colville, who supplies her figures with a disquieting sense of stillness and isolation. (Globe and Mail)
Art.view: The next blue chip Jun 22, 2008
They were linked to top-selling artists, such as Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele, from neighbouring Austria, and they had enjoyed considerable museum exposure in America and Britain. There are connections, too, with the bright colours of the Fauvists, who have enjoyed a huge surge in popularity recently. (The Economist)
Gustav Klimt: Painting, Design and Modern Life in Vienna 1900 ... Jun 1, 2008
The veined hands of the left-most figure in Three Ages of Woman lead directly to Egon Schiele, and on from him to the German Expressionists (maybe even to Freud's grandson, Lucian). I very much doubt that, if Klimt had made it to 70, we would find the work of his last 15 years reproduced as posters for bedsit walls. (Independent)
Holocaust historians blast MFA stance in legal dispute May 28, 2008
Another art restitution dispute could also have an impact on his client's case: Chestnut Hill philanthropist David Bakalar has filed suit in District Court in New York to get a ruling recognizing his ownership of a 1917 Egon Schiele watercolor he purchased from Kallir in 1963. Raymond Dowd, a New York lawyer who represents those challenging Bakalar's ownership in the ongoing Schiele case, said research done for his clients outlined the complicated background of Kallir. (Boston Globe)
The golden touch May 24, 2008
Klimt, like his disciple Egon Schiele, is also known for his candid nudes - women masturbating, semi-clothed, innuendos of lesbianism. Art historians tend to worry away at the moral propriety of these pictures. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
Looted Or Lawfully Acquired? Mar 28, 2008
A legal opinion commissioned by the Jewish community found that at least 11 of the foundation's works, including some by Egon Schiele, Anton Romako and Albin Egger-Lienz, belonged to people who were persecuted by the Nazis - and that collector Rudolf Leopold must have been aware, when he acquired them, of the possibility that they had been seized. "He knew, or he must have known, that these paintings belonged to people who were persecuted by the Nazis," said Georg Graf, who wrote the legal... (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
* [ ART JOURNAL ] Looted by Nazis and unclaimed, art goes on display in Jerusalem Feb 20, 2008
"Our feeling about them is that our job is to hold them in custody, in a way, as a kind of memorial to their loss, and when the opportunity arises to return a work we are happy to do so,'' Snyder said. The exhibit of art the museum received from JRSO includes a 19th-century wedding portrait of the beautiful Charlotte de Rothschild, scion of the wealthy Jewish banking family, along with one of her husband and cousin Lionel. The paintings hung in a Jewish nursing home in Frankfurt before they were... (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Art in search of owners Feb 20, 2008
zanne, Manet, Degas, Chagall, Delacroix, Egon Schiele, Monet, Alfred Sisley, Max Liebermann, Pieter de Hooch and others. Some of the French-held art was ordered taken by Hitler himself, for the Third Reich. (International Herald Tribune)
Nazi-looted art goes on display Feb 20, 2008
The most famous painting in the "Orphaned Art" exhibit is one by the early 20th century Austrian master Egon Schiele thought to be worth more than $20 million. In the "Looking for Owners" exhibit, nearly every painting has a story. (CNN -- World)
Picasso, Czanne, Magritte, Bacon London prepares for 500m art ... Feb 4, 2008
"Today, Christie's Impressionist and Modern Art sale will put eight works by Egon Schiele under the hammer, as well as 35 pieces by Surrealists such as Ren; Magritte and Marc Chagall. Tomorrow, works by Picasso, Jawlensky, Sisley, Monet, C;zanne and Renoir will be auctioned at Sotheby's. Among the most valuable works on the list is a portrait by Picasso of Dora Maar, the photographer and painter who became his lover in the late 1930s. The work is expected to fetch between 6.5m and 8.5m, while... (Independent)
Weakening art sales rattle Sotheby's, Christie's Nov 10, 2007
And while a record was set for a sculpture by Pablo Picasso and top prices were paid for works by Egon Schiele, a quarter of the works remained unsold and the total bids fell well short of pre-sale estimates. "I think some of our estimates were ambitious and informed by strong sales earlier in the year, but we expected the Van Gogh to sell," Sotheby's chief executive Bill Ruprecht said Friday in a conference call with analysts. (Yahoo News -- Top Stories)
AUCTIONS: A Schiele sells for $11.35 million at Sotheby's Nov 9, 2007
Sotheby's Egon Schiele's self-portrait netted a surprising $11,353,000 at Sotheby's sale of Impressionist and Modern works in New York ... The session was only into its third lot when the most extravagant price yet witnessed this week, $11,353,000, was paid for a drawing in black crayon heightened in gouache and watercolor by Egon Schiele, the Viennese artist who all too often indulged in tortured drawings and paintings betraying perverse sexual obsessions. (International Herald Tribune)
Matisse Sets Record as Christie's Auction Totals $395 Million Nov 7, 2007
Last night's sale included a group of German and Austrian paintings, reflecting the heightened demand for names including Lyonel Feininger, Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele. Many of them sold, though a 3-foot-square 1912 painting by August Macke, ``Paar im Wald (Couple Walking in the Woods),'' was too pricey at over $15 million, particularly for an artist who had never surpassed $4. (Bloomberg)
Immodest proposals Oct 13, 2007
When Paula Modersohn-Becker painted herself naked, she had Edvard Munch, Oskar Kokoschka, Egon Schiele and Lovis Corinth keeping pace with her. Since then, a horde of women artists who use their own bodies as their principal medium of expression has overrun the art scene. (Guardian Unlimited)
Middle-aged Brit Artist waves the flag in Venice Jun 7, 2007
But the delicate monoprints, washy watercolours, and pale-toned oil paintings channelling the spirit of Egon Schiele, suggest a very different artist from the one who created that unmade bed for the 1999 Turner prize show. "It shows Britain isn't just flash and YBA [Young British Artists]," she said. (Guardian Unlimited -- UK)
A novice finds his inner voice May 23, 2007
"As I kept hearing this one track, choreographic shapes kept coming into my mind. I found out the album was called Music for Egon Schiele [the Austrian artist of the early 20th century], which made me look for his paintings. "When I saw them, they were so similar to the shapes that I had visualised. I read that trains were so prevalent in his life [his father was a station master] and I started thinking about trains and journeys. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
* Handbook helps Jewish families claim stolen art Apr 23, 2007
There are works in basements and vaults," Schnabel, a lawyer who handles restitution claims, said. Even before it hit the shelves last month, the book he wrote with historian Monika Tatzkow was adding to pressure on the German government to return a painting from the Biedermeier era featured on its cover. The work, Fiat Justitia by Carl Spitzweg, formed part of the German government's art collection for decades after World War II. But it originally belonged to Jewish trader Leo Bendel, who died... (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Sotheby's and Christie's May Sell $1.4 Billion of Art in New York Auction Apr 17, 2007
Steinhardt, whose collection ranges from Jackson Pollock paintings to Judaica, disposed of some Egon Schiele pictures in the boom and said he'd have sold more works if his wife had let him. The art market has special risks because no one really knows the value of a painting, he said. (Bloomberg -- UK)
Name the Early-20th-Century Artist Apr 15, 2007
Can You Identify These Early 20th-Century European Painters. How well do you know this 20th-century German, Austrian, or Spanish artist who died in WWI, died in the Spanish flu outbreak, or was obsessed with scenes from his youth. (Suite101.com)
Van Gogh is in the heirs Mar 24, 2007
Of all his worshipers, the one most attuned to the Dutchman's negative energy was Egon Schiele, who translated Van Gogh's bent, mustard-colored sunflowers into a wintry landscape crowded with skeletal, agonizing stalks. Van Gogh's flowers are eloquent of mortality and the implication of rebirth; Schiele's blasted field represents only disappointment and despoliation. (Newsday -- Entertainment)
Inside a Head Mar 8, 2007
Though a lot of the Roosevelt community will recognize them, and want to see who is no longer living, I think of it as like the work of Egon Schiele or Matisse you don't know the people, but the drawings tell you about them. It could be any town. (Hopewell Valley News, NJ)
Streisand, others on LACMA board Feb 9, 2007
Streisand, a supporter of humanitarian and environmental causes and a funder of the Clinton Climate Change Initiative, collected German Expressionist art by Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele and Emil Nolde as a young art enthusiast, the museum said. More recently, she has acquired works by John Singer Sargent, Robert Henri, William McGregor Paxton and others. (Los Angeles Times)
Sotheby's Raises $186 Million in London Sale of Impressionist, Modern Art Feb 6, 2007
5 million pounds, and a guarantee from Sotheby's of a minimum price to the seller; two Egon Schiele works; three Emil Nolde paintings; two Pierre Bonnard pictures; landscapes by Claude Monet and Eugene Boudin, and an Edgar Degas dancer. Sculptures were snapped up. (Bloomberg -- UK)
HAUTE OR NOT? Jan 26, 2007
rie Hash and Cathy Pill, by coincidence, both said they were inspired by the Viennese Secessionist artists Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele. As it turned out, though, the references weren't particularly apparent in either Hash's pleated tweed miniskirts and tutus or Cathy Pill's abstract photoprint and jacquard dresses. (Style.com -- Trends)
SOPHISTICATED LADY Jan 22, 2007
" And Rosekrans is more than just flash. "She loves to be outrageous, but there's substance behind it," said Robert Flynn Johnson, graphic arts curator at the Fine Arts Museums in San Francisco. After the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, she and her late husband led a successful $23.8 million campaign to raise funds for renovating and expanding the Legion of Honor, to which they contributed $5 million. The project included a $12.7 million seismic retrofit paid for by a city bond measure. The museum... (San Francisco Chronicle)
