[HN Gopher] The Untold Mystery Upending Egon Schiele's Legacy
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       The Untold Mystery Upending Egon Schiele's Legacy
        
       Author : apollinaire
       Score  : 22 points
       Date   : 2025-04-03 23:14 UTC (3 days ago)
        
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       | ggm wrote:
       | https://archive.is/ES7M3
        
       | ggm wrote:
       | So let's be clear: it's implicitly incest, right? One denial in
       | this article aside, he appears to have encouraged if not caused
       | his younger sisters eroticism as a pre teen, took her away to
       | share a room in the hotel his parents honeymooned in, changed his
       | art after entering a relationship. Nobody knows who the child's
       | father is, fair enough. His pre marriage art was unquestionably
       | "edgy"
       | 
       | Amazing paintings. Also, amazingly disturbing. I cannot conceive
       | of having one on the wall.
        
         | hiddencost wrote:
         | It's very stark, touring a gallery show of Schiele.
         | 
         | Every single piece is grotesque except that work portraying his
         | sister.
        
           | paganel wrote:
           | That's how art is supposed to be, to raise something inside
           | the one experiencing it. For those that want a more mundane
           | experience from the same time-period there's also a Sargent
           | and countless others like him.
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           | For reference, the one Schiele exhibition that I got to
           | attend took place more than 15 years ago, at the Leopold
           | Museum in Vienna itself, and for sure I didn't see it as
           | grotesque. I was more mesmerised later that day by the
           | Egyptian art hosted in the nearby Kunsthistorisches Museum
        
             | khazhoux wrote:
             | I saw that same exhibition in Vienna! 2007 IIRC.
             | 
             | I agree that it never struck me as grotesque. His work is
             | bold, stark, urgent. I also find that his draftsmanship is
             | overshadowed. He has an amazing sense of volume, told with
             | simple linework. And his hand renderings are sublime.
        
         | vilhelm_s wrote:
         | Surely the child's father was Anton Peschka? Gertrude was
         | engaged to him, later married him, and his mother raised the
         | child. I don't think the article suggests otherwise.
        
         | alwa wrote:
         | The "mystery"? I took it to be the arc of her out-of-wedlock
         | pregnancy with her first daughter Gerti--the new awareness of
         | which makes sense of his sister Gertrude's shotgun marriage to
         | the best friend Anton, and Schiele's abrupt stylistic shift and
         | change in lifestyle afterward. Apparently they hid her well.
        
       | larrywright wrote:
       | I'd never heard of Schiele until yesterday when I was reading
       | about an actor on a show I was watching. I'm not really an art
       | buff but his work is quite interesting (if a bit disturbing at
       | times).
        
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