Due to Schiele's death from an influenza epidemic in 1918, he never completed this painting of his friend Paris von Gütersloh. Nonetheless, it remains a masterpiece of Austrian Expressionist portraiture. Gütersloh was a painter, writer, actor, producer, and stage designer, who wrote the first study of Schiele's art in 1911. Schiele admired his friend's extraordinary intell...
Size:
55 1/8 x 43 7/16 in. (140.02 x 110.33 cm)
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Credit:
Public Domain, Courtesy of the Minneapolis Institute of Art
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