Portrait of Albert Paris von Gütersloh, 1918
Egon Schieleexpand_more
Oil on canvasexpand_more
Gift of the P. D. McMillan Land Companyexpand_more 54.30
Not on Viewexpand_more
Schiele’s death during the 1918 influenza pandemic, at the age of only twenty-eight, left this portrait of his friend Albert Paris von Gütersloh (1887–1973) unfinished. Nonetheless, the work is 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 hands raised in a gesture of both attraction and repulsion, eyes transfixed and body tense, Gütersloh is shown at the moment of artistic inspiration.
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- Title
- Portrait of Albert Paris von Gütersloh
- Artist Life
- 1890 - 1918
- Role
- Artist
- Accession Number
- 54.30
- Curator Approved
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