Egon Schiele:Vivre Et Mourir/Living And Dying
Xavier Coste
Collection: Universe of authors
Hard Cover
Colour
72 pages
Dimensions: 24x32x1.5 cm
ISBN: 220304778X
EAN: 9782203047785
Price: € 18.00
Release Date: 23/05/2012
My title translation might not be great -it could be “Life And Death”…?
Egon Schiele: 1890-1918. Twenty eight years of existence, and so great an influence on the art of the twentieth century … It is this exceptional destiny that traces the first comic by Xavier Coste – himself only 22 years old when he created this album. The tumultuous and fascinating story of a meteoric risein the world of art. Full of the contrasts and excesses that made the man.
The book deliberately concentrates on the last years of the life of the Austrian painter. The development of a talent, first: his fraternal sponsorship by Gustav Klimt, his appetite for conquest of women: his taste for provocation and his first success. All soon followed by his failures: briefly jailed for pornography, Schiele turns, becoming middle-class … The outbreak of the Great War and the disappearance of almost all his relatives will finish off the flame of his career before he succumbs to the Spanish flu.
Great story-telling and wonderful art from Xavier Coste…and that smell of newly printed BD that is soooo intoxicating. Stylish. Perhaps Mr Brown ought to try something like this?
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ReplyDeleteI've heard nothing like that. Books and even online sources like Wikipedia say he died, like his wife and 20,000,000 others, of Spanish flu....right, the Wikipedia quote is:
ReplyDelete"In the autumn of 1918, the Spanish flu pandemic that claimed more than 20,000,000 lives in Europe reached Vienna. Edith, who was six months pregnant, succumbed to the disease on 28 October. Schiele died only three days after his wife. He was 28 years old. During the three days between their deaths, Schiele drew a few sketches of Edith; these were his last works."
So I think your teacher was wrong! ;-)