Jean-Louis Gaillemain

Egon Schiele

Note: I could't find the actual book that I read on here so I'm using this as a placeholder instead. The one I read was published by Granger books, the same year published as this one.

My disdain towards Egon Schiele's mistreatment of all the women in his life, not his art, cannot be expressed beyond words. Not only did he start making nude/sexual portraits of his sister when she was 16, the way he treated Wally (17 at the time they met), Klimt's former lover whom he gave to Schiele was also just... diabolical. 

Contextually one can argue that I "should" not be enraged of his only use prostitutes as models (which were often minors) because, "The significance of woman in turn is limited solely to her biological function of childbearing in the cult book of that time by the author Otto Weininger 'Sex and Character', who comments that men of significance should only get involved with prostitutes." 

Anyway, regarding my specific comments about the book itself, not the artist, I think this this is very digest and understand! I did, however, had issues with the design/layout of the book. The images in each page is not relevant to the caption and I had to go back 10+ pages prior to look back on what the text was explaining. It was a bit of a struggle to have to revert back more than once.

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Note: I could't find the actual book that I read on here so I'm using this as a placeholder instead. The one I read was published by Granger books, the same year published as this one.

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My disdain towards Egon Schiele's mistreatment of all the women in his life, not his art, cannot be expressed beyond words. Not only did he start making nude/sexual portraits of his sister when she was 16, the way he treated Wally (17 at the time they met), Klimt's former lover whom he gave to Schiele was also just... diabolical. 

Contextually one can argue that I "should" not be enraged of his only use prostitutes as models (which were often minors) because, "The significance of woman in turn is limited solely to her biological function of childbearing in the cult book of that time by the author Otto Weininger 'Sex and Character', who comments that men of significance should only get involved with prostitutes." 

Anyway, regarding my specific comments about the book itself, not the artist, I think this this is very digest and understand! I did, however, had issues with the design/layout of the book. The images in each page is not relevant to the caption and I had to go back 10+ pages prior to look back on what the text was explaining. It was a bit of a struggle to have to revert back more than once.

Egon Schiele

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