Wolfgang Georg Fischer Livres

""Hindering the artist is a crime,"" wrote Egon Schiele in 1912. At the time he was in prison for disseminating immoral drawings. Throughout his work the note of defiance, provocation, and rebellion was sounded. Schiele's favorite subjects were female nudes and self-portraits, and he worked at his art with furious commitment, though it was not until shortly before his early death that he began to win real recognition. Today, with Oskar Kokoschka, he is seen as the most important of the Austrian artists who came after Klimt. This study examines the life and work of Egon Schiele through all the major oil paintings and many of his erotic drawings.

""Hindering the artist is a crime,"" wrote Egon Schiele in 1912. At the time he was in prison for disseminating immoral drawings. Throughout his work the note of defiance, provocation, and rebellion was sounded. Schiele's favorite subjects were female nudes and self-portraits, and he worked at his art with furious commitment, though it was not until shortly before his early death that he began to win real recognition. Today, with Oskar Kokoschka, he is seen as the most important of the Austrian artists who came after Klimt. This study examines the life and work of Egon Schiele through all the major oil paintings and many of his erotic drawings.

Explores the life and work of the modern artist

Der dritte Band der literarisierten Erinnerungen Wolfgang Georg Fischers führt die Leser als erstes mit viel Ironie in das Exil der Familie nach Slowenien. Nach der Rückkehr mit seiner Mutter nach Wien beschreibt der Autor seine Volksschulzeit im Wiener Arbeiterbezirk Favoriten, dem Wohnbezirk seines nichtjüdischen Großvaters. Nationalsozialistische Lehrer werden ebenso geschildert wie Erlebnisse im Salzkammergut, wo sich die Familie Goebbels in der arisierten Roth-Villa einquartierte. Der jüdische Vater des Autors flüchtete nach England. Seine Scheinscheidung und Wiederverheiratung wie eine Beschreibung seiner Internierung und das Schicksal einiger Familienmitglieder sind weitere Themen. Das Buch endet mit Reflexionen zur Sprache im Exil.