Egon Schiele
Hello everyone! Today we start a special month with the Leopold Museum in Vienna, which owns a marvelous collection the Austrian art from 1900s that includes Secession masterpieces, Gustav Klimt works, and of course those of ... Egon Schiele! Today we present a beautiful landscape painted by him. Enjoy!
Once the sun sets, the earth turns cold, almost as if its light has been extinguished, as we can see in the foreground’s dark bands of grass and tiny flowers. Two small trees tower over the hilly terrain in the foreground; the tops of the trees crisscross with the sea, the islands, and the sky. Every leaf on the twigs is dried-up and has grown stiff from the cold; the branches themselves turn toward each other, in need of shelter. The sinking sun is only partially visible and the backlit mountains appear in a cold, carmine coloring. It is a farewell to light, warmth, and life. Schiele’s inspiration for this scene most likely came from the coast near Trieste and the two barren red-rocked islands lying off the coast.
Rudolf Leopold acquired this painting from Schiele’s long-time patron and collector, Arthur Roessler, above whose desk it hung. Leopold was an Austrian art collector; his collection of 5,000 works of art was purchased by the Government of Austria and used to create the Leopold Museum, of which he was made director for life.
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