书名：Egon Schiele. The Paintings – 40th Anniversary Edition/埃贡·席勒绘画作品集/Taschen40周年纪念版

作者：Tobias G. Natter

出版：TASCHEN，2020

装帧：精装，512页

语种：英语

尺寸：15.6 x 21.7 cm

埃贡·席勒（1890–1918）摆脱了导师兼榜样古斯塔夫·克里姆特的阴影后，在西班牙流感夺去他的生命之前，只用了十年时间就将自己独特的风格铭刻在了现代艺术的史册上。作为一个深知自身天赋的神童，同时也是一位充满激情的挑衅者，这对他而言并非什么难事。

他笔下憔悴、扭曲的人物形象，对性的大胆描绘，以及那些将自己塑造成面容消瘦、介于才华与疯狂边缘的自画像，完全没有克里姆特作品中那种关于爱、性与深切眷恋的装饰性特质。相反，席勒的作品展现出一种残酷的诚实，这种诚实震撼了维也纳社会，并使其发生了不可逆转的改变。

尽管他的作品后来被污蔑为“堕落艺术”，且一度几乎被彻底遗忘，但它们影响了一代又一代的艺术家——从君特·布鲁斯、弗朗西斯·培根到翠西·艾敏。如今，他那曾被误解的全部作品在国际艺术市场上仍能拍出天价。

这本专著最初以超大版出版，为庆祝 Taschen 出版社成立40周年，现推出略经删减的更紧凑版本，收录了再现席勒创作力旺盛的最后十年的油画与素描作品。这些作品还配有介绍他生平与创作的文章，将这位奥地利艺术大师置于欧洲表现主义的背景中，并追溯了他非凡的艺术遗产。

After Egon Schiele (1890–1918) freed himself from the shadow of his mentor and role model Gustav Klimt, he had just ten years to inscribe his signature style into the annals of modernity before the Spanish flu claimed his life. Being a child prodigy quite aware of his own genius and a passionate provocateur, this didn’t prove to be too big a challenge.

His haggard, overstretched figures, extreme depiction of sexuality and self-portraits, in which he staged himself with emaciated facial expressions bordering between brilliance and madness, had none of the decorative quality of Klimt’s hymns of love, sexuality and yearning devotion. Instead, Schiele’s work spoke of a brutal honesty, one that would upset and irreversibly change Viennese society.

Although his works were later defamed as “degenerate” and for a time were almost forgotten altogether, they influenced generations of artists―from Günter Brus and Francis Bacon to Tracey Emin. Today, his then misunderstood oeuvre continues to fetch exorbitant prices on the international art market.

This monograph, first published in an XL edition, is now available in a slightly abridged, more compact edition to celebrate TASCHEN’s 40th anniversary and features the paintings and drawings that retrace the fertile last decade of Schiele’s life. These works are accompanied by essays introducing his life and oeuvre, situating the Austrian master in the context of European Expressionism and charting his extraordinary legacy.