Richard Gerstl - Retrospective

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Exhibition
Schirn Art Gallery
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Römer­berg
60311 Frank­furt am Main
He is the "first Austrian Expressionist" and for many still an insider tip: Richard Gerstl (1883-1908). The painter is mentioned in the same breath as the three masters of Viennese modernism - Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele and Oskar Kokoschka. Until his suicide at the age of only 25, he created an exciting, unusual, if manageable oeuvre with impressive highlights and groundbreaking innovations. For the first time in Germany, the SCHIRN is showing a comprehensive retrospective and bringing together almost all the works by him that are known today. In his approximately 80 works, an eternally searching artist reveals himself, who already anticipated much that only later manifested itself in art history, for example in the Abstract Expressionist painting of the 1950s. The portrait is Gerstl's preferred genre, along with the nude and landscape. The exhibition presents gestural, wild group portraits as well as depictions of people from his closest circle or even his self-portrait as a nude - the first ever by an artist after Albrecht Dürer. Richard Gerstl's painting reflects his confrontation with the contradictions of modernism: he opposed the Vienna Secession in terms of style and content, rejected its concept of beauty and painted against traditional rules. He created unsparing and self-confident images that remain unparalleled to this day. Source of text and further information on this event: http://www.schirn.de/exhibitions/2017/richard_gerstl/
Richard Gerstl - Retrospective
July 2025
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