and oil on wood, 32.4 × 25.8 cm
Leopold Museum, Vienna
Visual artists worked beside renowned writers and musicians such as Rilke, Schnitzler, Alternberg, Schönberg and Alban Berg for the periodical Ver Sacrum. Here, they developed the idea of the ‘complete’ work of art which encompassed all artistic areas. Simultaneously, the Secession required the abolition of the distinction between higher and lower art, art for the rich and art for the poor and declared art common property. Yet, this demand of the art nouveau generation remained a privilege of the upper class striving for the ideal that “art is a lifestyle”, which encompassed architectural style, interior design, clothing and jewellery.
Schiele Drawing a Nude Model in front of a Mirror
1910
Pencil, 55.2 × 35.3 cm
Albertina, Vienna
Schiele’s artistic roots were in the “Jugendstil” of the Viennese Secession movement. Like a whole generation, he came under the influence of Vienna’s most charismatic and celebrated artist, Gustav Klimt (1862–1918). In Vienna’s creative effervescence, the two major figures of Austrian expressionism, Schiele and Kokoschka, would fully expand their talents under the tutelage of Klimt.
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