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 as the agony and angst in the watercolors he completed behind bars show. on april tenth one thousand nine hundred twelve on the first day of the titanic s maiden voyage three policemen knocked on sheila s door. a thirteen year old girl tatyana from morsi 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
was not moscow berlin paris and new york that were important but vienna and the paris club you know after this realization home and to fill this oversight with an exhibition of viennese modernism it was staged of vienna without paris vienna independent of paris it spotlighting viennese culture at the turn of the century because we the french owed so much to this culture including do it on she were going she did yes. in the late one nine hundred twelve 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 few hundred homes lived across the street. sheila married edith the younger of his two daughters in june nine hundred fifteen. it s the low i think it was the winter of one thousand nine hundred fourteen i had at once with
artists not only have a right but also a duty to address taboos and invite social discourse and she has 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 nine hundred ten sheila wrote to his friend anton pashka. 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. he me in forest he was yearning for a place called kumo is the daughter stone sheena referred to it has the dead city and in fact it was. the german population had been expelled and young czechs didn t want to live in the old town center they ve built new houses on the outskirts. is
just to shock the borsch was see this has 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 sheila s childhood and his death place 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 first drawings. fears for the other of she there was station master in two and a key rail hub in the austria hungary an empire. a hot tempered man he sensed his son s exceptional talent very early on. and they can.
now largely lost series for the well. the subject was sheila s fifteen year old sister getty dollars for the so he probably had to choose her because he couldn t afford other models. from his lies and called it the totally unnatural coloring the billy is green and yellow in the face the blood red stumps that we see here they mark the birth of expressionism. well the artist has dared to defy the law of imitation the subject itself breaks taboos its depiction of the exposed genitals stops at nothing but this is not pornography to be looked at in secret so to speak. so you know it s a work of art indeed it s a key piece not only of early austrian expressionism but also of a gun she was entire. so unlike example even. today she did exhibitions don t come with signs barring admittance for girls and