We. You have on the show the book dont seek us dont have cause they can feel it a key quote by a going shooter from the time of his imprisonment maintains that art cannot be modern. This was an extremely radical claim to make which on the one hand shows the rebellious side of this very young painter. And at the same time summarizes the essence of viennese modernism as you know which was not a modernism that promised a glorious future or claim to improve the human condition or bring mankind happiness but. It was far more introspection or returned to ones inner self with. Its a self critical modernism to take them in the nanny and it was this return to the self gave modernist viennese art a power and an appeal that other art movements were lacking. Peacefully poke in 3 songs good is of no but. The real part museum in vienna houses the worlds most comprehensive collection of works by a go and see them. The art collector who died flew part began acquiring the Oil Paintings washes was a color as im drawings in the 1950 s. His passion for the austrian pain to serve to revive interest in an artist who otherwise may well have been forgotten. If all else i was a not just with an enormous practice i also had 3 children and a crazy husband i dont mean that disparagingly but in the sense that he could take huge 1000 things he said right from the start that he was a great artist who was not appreciated. Back in the 1950 s. No one gave she never thought. You could export and import his works without austrias federal Monuments Authority taking any interest and people said my husband was crazy collecting she. Said she. Feel that sets the standard for sheila set the standard for the generations of contemporary artists who followed him in the 20th and 21st century as he set new rules for artists he said an artist is self sufficient a rebel and all voluntary black and agitator an artist works for no one but himself. Sheilas works were considered obscene and we know he spent a brief time in jail but in reality his works were exactly the opposite they were characterized by an almost painful clarity and openness a rawness and purity. And when you see the pictures here you notice that he actually approached all of his subjects his flowers nudes and landscapes all in the same way always with the same empathy and devotion or. She was naked truth is effective for another vietnamese the other betina its director has a knack for staging exhibitions that pull in the crowds he acknowledges a deep personal fascination with shiva his kids as an adult to to to to say that any serious encounter with art offers a window of self discovery a confrontation in which we wrestle with the existential questions that affect us is a platitude. Its a big claim and very often exaggerated but its true of a gun sheila i dont think anyone can view a single one of his nudes without questioning not just the artist stance on sexuality nudity and vulnerability but their own as well did. You for the. Quotes. From. The emotional encounter with a gun she was work is due not only to the delight i take of his incredible virtuosity as an artist but also an encounter and a confrontation with myself. Legend has it that never used any razor and needed very little time to produce a drawing sometimes no more than a few minutes. Later this enormous energy. Was it an act of liberation and if so from what. The worlds leading experts on a gone sheila is jane callia from new york her answer to these questions is closely linked to the Vienna Academy of fine arts. For sheila obviously the. Principal fear. For expressing. Human existence in all of its diversity and complexity was the human body. I think that he was one of the greatest 1st students of and then masters of the human form he could draw it with perfect accuracy but since he had such a complete command over the body he could also bend it and move it and distort it and make it tell a story and i think sheila was very interested to explore this question people look at his war and they say my goodness. Its so terrifying its so ugly and he even comments that i have doubtless pated terrible pictures do they believe i did it on purpose just to shock the borsch was see this is never been the case but there are specters that are brought forth by longing and i have painted such specters not because i enjoyed it i just have to. Memories of it on sheilas childhood in his birthplace the austrian town of turin on the down new. Heavy steam trains shook the sheila family home by braces could be seen and felt in the apartment. And trains with the subject of young a guns 1st drawings. His father she was station master in tune a key rail hub in the austria hungary an empire a hot tempered man he sensed his sons Exceptional Talent very early on. And again she threw that scene this year in there those one very revealing story is where having noticed how his son spent all his time drawing it off she loved one in a drawing pad and told him that every day after doing his latin homework he should drop picture on one page and then hed look at it when it was filled. Evidently thought this would give him a few weeks peace. He gave a go on the exercise book in the morning when he returned home for lunch he saw that all the pages had already been filled and that they were strewn all over the apartment. He had a fit and burned the drawings. This story tells us that a grandfather was willing to foster his sons talent but only on his own terms. In other words the father specified that one hour a day would be sufficient to foster his sons artistic talents. So you see a guy who didnt have mozarts father otherwise 8 of sheila would have taken his cue from his son and realized that what he was offering in terms of fostering a dance talent was nowhere near enough. d by all appearances the family led a comfortable middle. The 3 children grew up in safety and prosperity ready. But even today these rooms seem to tell a different story. Around the year 9980 dollars she lives began to suffer from the symptoms of untreated syphilis. As he succumbed to insanity the family stable life became and. Who are you and what are you doing here. Im getting. I was born here in 1904 people. Believe i make on this youngest sister i think thats where he slept out of the over there in the corner on the other side is melanies bed she was that elder sister you lived here for many years what memories do you still have feelings that is that before so much happened here. But i cant remember at all they say you and your brother and sister had a very comfortable life here the soviets right things owned always what they seem. Whenever we went out we were different in here a lot of things happened my father. Has to see us. We didnt really understand what was happening lived perhaps melanie knew more do you want to tell us about it. Yes he so often but stay over there. We children must already have been asleep when suddenly we heard loud noises coming from our parents bedroom where they are going. To keep arguing my mother of all people arguing with my father no she was patience personified she put up with everything so what happened. Out for you know he lit a fire i heard him opening the stove door and be off then i got out it was the middle of the night a fact my father was burning stacks of paper i didnt know what exactly was that of those people i only found out later that he burned all of our shareholdings so far the glow from the fire fell on his face to face those i use all the illuminated face of a father who had gone mad and so it was like to give autumn in fact us. How did you handle it did you talk to your brother about it i talk about it with him by then my brother was living in close to 9. We never discussed my father i was shown that look at work. That was his way of talking about it. Art historians spend a lot of time trying to decode she lives off an enigma and allegorical iconography. Is the key to his in a world of. The art center in the small town of google and here vienna was once a Psychiatric Institute that used therapy as a form of treatment for its patients today its an onsite assisted living facility called the house of artists which enables patients to live independently as they pursue artistic work. The intensity of the works on display here is reminiscent of sheila my other slim figure in fuel efficient food about the life you lead was born into wasnt necessarily a good one he was a hard struggle as a child he witnessed his fathers outings to vienna to visit prostitutes where he contract the disease that ultimately destroyed him and the whole family around kirkland thank you for. After failing his classes a gun she was sent to a new school in close to annoy book in 1000 know to at the age of 12 he now only spent weekends with his family in tow and. But he continued to struggle at school and had to repeat a great for the 2nd time. In the years 1904 and 905 a going there with the hosts next family. Their son peter was a renowned doctor and researcher in the field of radiology the mysterious images illuminating the inner workings of the human body captivated 14 year old egon a fascination that resurfaces in his out. Back then very few people had access to x. Ray images they were exclusively available to specialists they could be projected in a lecture hall via an epi di a scope that was possible. But they werent widely viewed by the public like they are today so there was very little Public Awareness about x. Rays. And its likely that his personal relationship with holtz connect was formative for sheila. Because it gave him this Privileged Access to x. Rays and. She has primary focus was on composition he left interpretation to other. Hands are an important means of expression and feature prominently in sheilas work but despite countless interpretation attempts their message remains an enigma. 2 perhaps clues to their meaning can be found at viennas crime museum a place packed with eerie and sinister exhibits and fascinating records of hands that could lead us back to take on sheila. What i have here in front of me is whats known as a criminals album. Such albums were put together to document the mug shots of sentenced criminals being held in city jails. In. The. Hands of course have always played a major role in criminal investigations. As hans can have telling markings. And best of all. Tense met for instance will have conspicuous marks on his thumbs from constantly pressing down on the metal. And a cobbler will have marks on the balls of islam from holding a shoe hammer to the so different criteria served as identifying features common. Hands in various positions feature prominently in these photos really does. And it cant be ruled out that sheila was influenced by this defining feature of criminal record photography full took our vision of mom and kids in. After his fathers death sheila moved with his mother to vienna in 1906 to live with his well situated maternal uncle and guardian check also a Railway Official he allowed his 16 year old nephew to rent his 1st studio. His uncle was a member of the n. S. Patrician class with its policies and music. His life style met a lasting impression on a gun the family agreed to allow a gun to drop out of school and pursue a career as an artist sheila took the entrance examination to the academy of fine arts and passed with distinction in october 906. 00 at the age of 16 he became its youngest student. She is ways too smart and too fast for the academy and very often the teacher would give. Long assignments you know of a project that they would have several hours to work on and he would come in at the last minute and do it in you know 1015 minutes what the other student had been working on for hours. Very very quickly. Outgrew the cademy and of course his professor creep and carol hated air for that because he didnt listen. He had his own ma and and. One who was such an upstart was a Bad Influence for the other students as well sheila was frustrated by the academys conservative as. He left the school in 99 without a diploma and founded the noise all new group with other dissatisfied students. The exhibitions attracted interest among those impressed by the 19 year olds personal style was cool stuff. This seemingly trivial and basic watercolor of a new girl is probably one of the most revolutionary works from the start of a great career lots of that scene painted in 1010 its part of the now largely lost series for the us the subject was sheilas 15 year old sister getty so he probably had to choose her because he couldnt afford other models. Called. The totally unnatural coloring the bilious green and yellow in the face the blood red stumps that we see here they mark the birth of expressionism and he smiles. Well the artist has dared to defy the law of imitation the subject itself breaks to have its depiction of the exposed genitals stops and nothing but this is not pornography to be looked at in secret so to speak. So its no its a work of art indeed its a key piece not only of early austrian expressionism but also of a gun she was entire. So. Even. Today she did exhibitions dont come with signs barring admittance for girls and young women as they did in the us as latest the 1970 s. But how is this not charged as it is with Erotic Energy perceived by the public today can modern sensibilities stomach sheila sexually explicit work hard so for the express have no problem with explicit depictions. I think its good if theres a place in society where such things can be addressed and shown. There is a place for open and sensible discourse. Where the full emotional impact of such things can be experienced and confronted. But there are 2 things that must be stressed. Today we have a different awareness and where the justified requirements of Child Protection are concerned we must of course be careful what we show. On the other hand artists not only have a right but also a duty to address taboos and invite social discourse and sheilas great merit is that along with Sigmund Freud both incidentally from vienna he brought the sexuality of children in adolescence up out of the subconscious and depicted it for all to see. In 910 she lived wrote to his friend anton pashka. Want to leave vienna very soon everyone envies me and conspires against me the city is black and everything follows rules i want to be alone i want to go to the b. Him in forest he was yearning for a place called cooma is a doctor stuff sheena referred to attest the dead city and in fact it was. The german population had been expelled and young czechs didnt want to live in the Old Town Center theyd built new houses on the outskirts. Is the town was entirely empty cats roam the streets and it was just one house that was fit to serve as accommodation Everything Else was barricaded there were trees growing from attics the town was dead. I see the dead city as a key painting to understanding all his unreal ideas and thoughts. It appears dream like as if the town were rising up from a river. But its dead theres no one in it. He repeatedly painted a part of the old town with a birds eye view from the console not from the tower but from a long passageway from where if you look down you see exactly this part of the tunnel. You can still see almost every building today you can see this house this house and this house and this long gable she had painted what he saw but he was shaped it to reflect his own sensibilities. Laughter for. The tell that was called komal back then is modern day cesky croom loft in the Czech Republic it was his mothers birthplace which she had often visited with his family as a child. It was those never fading childhood memories that gave him a powerful sense of belonging. She lives landscapes of komal convey that to the viewer. Its clear this is where he wanted to live and work. In kumar how fast it was to everyone in crew malnutrition answers from vienna was coming. Back then a criminal had only 7000 inhabitants and they all thought wow what a painter from vienna. And who should turn up but a 20 year old youth accompanied by his girlfriend a beautiful young woman for whom they lived together they were married and friends from vienna also came like his colleagues from the academy anton pashka but also artists like me muffin also a very eccentric man but on some days the group would stroll through croom out to the main square who. Form a lot and im hoping its about him they dressed unconventionally she laughed parent we always wore a white suit and a white turn out to have because they observed people well and made loud remarks about passers by which of course didnt go down well with the locals. On that so i imagine that fairly soon they got a brother chilly reception. And people hadnt yet seen what he was painting. Oh the world was. Her valley north syria was a loyal companion pass her relationship with iran she was complicated. Though he would later leave her to marry up in society his portraits are testimony to a deeply felt connection 2. You must be very very noisy correct vyborg annoys. Me ronny the artists life companion and his girl friday. What do you mean by that now it depended on the situation and how he was feeling when he needed me i tried to help him. I was an encourager and often an overseer i kept an eye on the money to make sure that at least some was left over. And sometimes it was important to protect a gun from himself and i was a guns favorite model thats how posterity knows me. And what about love you were a going chillers lover for many years love love ego on. Be loved by egon. If understanding someone or accepting them without the need for lots of questions and answers without asking why or what full means love then yes i love dave on the love for me. I was simply there for him it was single minded. His home life was one deep feeling of rightness. There was never any Decision Making for him. He had a mission to fulfill any came from somewhere or other. From up there oh down there. I come from a very ordinary actually poor circumstances i dont have a School Leaving certificate but neither did. He so they were not a lot of opportunities open to me i was lucky i didnt have to work the streets i am my money as a model 1st with good stuff clim but. Again i was lucky and never had a baby with him and he recommended me to ego on and that turned into a love story between 2 very different people. And him often when i gave him oranges which he loved so much he accepted them with that. I was and that was a perfectly natural for him that he loved them and they belonged to him. Well i was part of a life that he loved so much. That life was shaken by his imprisonment in the town jail after he and valley moved to ny lang but it was a traumatic experience and the agony and angst in the watercolors he completed behind bars show. On april 10th 1912 on the 1st day of the titanics Maiden Voyage 3 policemen knocked on she was still a 13 Year Old Girl tatyana from music had been missing and she had come under suspicion of abducting and seducing the girl as well as disseminating pornographic material the artist was imprisoned pending trial when his case was brought before a judge 21. 00 days later the 1st 2 charges were dropped and she was sentenced to 3 more days in prison disseminating pornographic material. For decades the legacy of this episode proved a dilemma for noir langberg turnaround came in the 1963 with the visit of a Young American student. Oh i had to find a large building and it was easy to find because it really was the only imposing building around to see so i did photograph it from the back and you could see the bars on the Little Windows so it was perfectly clear that there had to be the building in which she called the door was so then i went around to the front and. This is it this is the prison so i went right up to the door and there was a and b. Im through there and i said her whole issue is in a goodman didnt she didnt defend nice until. We started to shout would start oh im supposed to speak in english yes well he looked at me and he said i mean couldnt he said that in a script to fish to carry your. Own but i came all the way from texas if i have a letter here from doctor. The director of the ill be tina. Please read it dean ill be tina director. Of. The student cause her lucky break when the Civil Servant left at the stroke of noon to enjoy a leisure lunch. And what i thought was exactly what she that had drawn the corridor or the limey grey wash along the corridor or the mob who pocket still there. So i took mine but all of works. Are heard of and nervously photographed the corridor really exact same photo as she was silent then the problem was where which one was his cell round her had made and exactly drawing obvious cell and on the heavy cell door there were bands of wood and then one of them had drawn what a previous prisoner had cut into the door with his knife he had inscribed his initials. Ha. Lehis is a retired dressmaker and even as a child was aware of noise to base on how to deal with its legacy of a gun sheila a man who had never invited who had put in prison and who came to be regarded as one of the 20th centurys greatest artists. Twice a week she sets out in remembrance of the artist to make a simple gesture of remarkable grandeur. And the title of a drawing of his cell he remarked that a single orange was the only light. That remark resonates with me because if you enter the cell now there is nothing matching remind you that he was there. But the orange reminds us that this was the cell in which she was locked up. Thats why im happy to do what i do and as long as i can keep bringing in orange hair. Sheila was badly shaken by his experience of incarceration he attempted to redefine himself and actively sought recognition as a refusal artist in european art circles he was already acknowledged as an exponent of austrian expressionism. What he left was an image boosting suggestion abroad you think of the spanish i think it was his serious intention to go to paris you can tell it from his letters in early 1914 he corresponded with several people and stated that he wanted to visit paris it seems he also found someone prepared to give him enough money for a longer stay so he definitely planned to go to paris that plan was always had by the outbreak of the 1st world war. Unlike his expressionist colleague Oscar Kokoschka who had moved to berlin she remained in austria good stuff claim to help get him into the association of austrian artists and she lamented exhibitions but it took more than 70 years before it goes sheila and vienna is modernism contribution to european cultural history was recognized in france. You know when the songs were pompidou this triumphant temple of modernism opened in 1977. Large exhibitions were organized that sought to reassert paris as a major player in european art or. These exhibitions were planned by pointers to 10 the 1st director of the central pompidou. And also they included the series paris new york paris berlin paris moscow. These exhibitions managed to change the publics view of modernism. Before but afterward to became clear that something essential had been left out about the new york it was not moscow berlin paris and new york that were important but vienna and paris you know after this realisation home and to fill this oversight with an exhibition of viennese modernism it was staged of vienna with paris vienna independent of paris it spotlighting the unease culture at the turn of the century because we the french owed so much to this culture including do it on cheaper than she did yes. In the late 1912 sheila rented a studio in the hit single neighborhood of vienna very close to a good stuff to its last studio was. The respectable family of the locksmith johann holmes lived across the street. She lim married edith the younger of his 2 daughters in june 915. Is a low spot and i think it was the winter of 1914 that i had at once with each sent a little letter inviting us to join him for a movie at the apollo theater. That hed also written that his girlfriend valley would be coming along so we could feel entirely safe. But. He said he really wasnt an apache thats not a swat at that was the word he used he was telling us he wasnt a scoundrel is a question of us and what happened then. Than happy to me when i fell in love with him. Was the. Was. It appears you had quite an influence on going sheila and was the man and thats after he had to learn that at some time or other an artist must also grow up in dyke in germany there was a publication called the action. Focused solely on expressionist art and its social and political impact in europe its always portrayed the important people those who brought about change for end or at least reveled these at some invests and shes in set in september 1916 they published a special edition about a gun just him no. I have you no longer had any time for that sort of games he played before we fought to. Have a visitor sooner neither of us was to have any time for anything fear or help me its. Kind of no time for one another or for life. Edith was 6 months pregnant when she died of the spanish influenza on october 28th 918 gone succumb to the disease 3 days later just 2 weeks before the armistice was signed a campian the war is over and i must go these were it on sheilas last words. In many ways a gunshy that appears as radical today as he did in his own time because even a century after they were produced his works exude a palette that leaves us electrified the sheilas it should be as if they say its hard to escape shooter his work is so immediate so raw and direct its an experience that can be described as beyond dark but its about more than technique theres a spiritual or magical component that transcends what youre seeing on the canvas or drawing it is like an encounter with another dimension and its something entirely different out of the humans or beautiful. 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