Egon Schiele Pillow Cover - Jacquard Weave - Musart on Pillows - Self Portrait with Peacock Vest, Standing (1911)

Name: Egon Schiele Pillow Cover - Jacquard Weave - Musart on Pillows - Self Portrait with Peacock Vest, Standing (1911)
Brand: Schiele
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About Egon Schiele Pillow Cover - Jacquard Weave - Musart on Pillows - Self-Portrait with Peacock Vest, Standing (1911)

This Egon Schiele Pillow Cover is part of our original collection, Musart on Pillows and is made out of Jacquard Weave Fabric. Jacquard weaving consists of the interweaving of two kinds of yarn: warp threads (10,500 threads in 100% cotton) and weft threads (cotton, wool, linen). This extremely precise technique makes it possible to interweave around 80 threads / cm². This technique results in obtaining a point of great finesse, it also allows to use a multitude of colors. It features his notorious work Self-Portrait with Peacock Vest, Standing (1911). This pillow cover features Egon Schiele’s work Self-Portrait with Peacock Vest, Standing (1911) which is one of the most unusual works in his career. Unlike most of his self-portraits, Schiele does not represent himself naked in a state of misery, despair, and grievance. Rather, we observe Schiele in an almost arrogant, proud, smug stance. A white aureole surrounds Schiele’s head, resembling images of saints or Byzantine fresco representations of Christ. Like other members of the German Expressionist movement (i.e. Gustav Klimt), Schiele was influenced by Nietzschean philosophy. In his belief that art and the artist can bring salvation to humanity. It is the first time we see in Schiele’s oeuvre, the V-Shaped gesture of his hand, in front of the solar plexus of his chest. The Austrian painter represents himself many times with his fingers apart. It is in this self-portrait that the famous gesture in V appears. Would it be a symbol? a gesture of protest? The parallel between the posture of his fingers and the art of Schiele is all found. It also echoes the Pantocrator Byzantine mosaic of Chora Church in Constantinople. More details on Egon Schiele Pillow Cover – Jacquard Weave – Musart on Pillows – Self Portrait with Peacock Vest, Standing (1911):

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Dimensions: 18″H x 18″L x 1″W
Weight: 1 lb (est)
Materials: All our pillows are made out of Jacquard Weave Fabric (95% Cotton, 5% Polyester). Jacquard weaving consists of the interweaving of two kinds of yarn: warp threads (10,500 threads in 100% cotton) and weft threads (cotton, wool, linen).
Additional Features: Invisible zipper.
Egon Schiele, Self-Portrait with Peacock Vest, Standing (1911). Oil on Canvas. Found in the collection of Albertina, Vienna.
Made in France.

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Schiele

Egon Schiele was an Austrian Expressionist painter. Gustav Klimt, figurative painter of the early 20th century, was a mentor. Egon Schiele was associated but not part of the German Expressionist movement. Schiele watched the slow, painful death of his father at 15 years old after contracting syphilis. Schiele began his artistic formal training the year after his father died. He enrolled in Vienna’s Academy of Fine Art in 1906, where he became the protégé of Gustav Klimt, who invited Schiele to exhibit some of his works with his own, and those of, among other artists: Vincent Van Gogh and Edvard Munch. Although Klimt and Schiele remained close throughout their careers, and that Klimt deeply influenced Schiele’s art, he did not fully share Klimt’s inclination towards the decorative. Like Gustav Klimt and his lavish use of gold leaf, Egon Schiele also took inspiration from Byzantine religious art. This gesture resembles the blessing hand gesture of Christ Byzantine representations, such as the Christ Pantocrator fresco found at the Chora Church in Istanbul. When Schiele exhibited with Van Gogh and Munch, their emotional content made a deep impression on him. However, eventually, Schiele surpassed all of his contemporaries, including Van Gogh and Munch in the portrayal of emotional states and tormented psyches through the representation of withered bodies. During his tragic but prolific career, Schiele produced more than 3,000 paintings and drawings. Most of these paintings and drawings consist of nude figure studies of men and women in gouache and watercolor on paper. It includes approximately a hundred self-portraits. Much like other 20th-century German Expressionist artists, Schiele’s figure studies and self-portraits evidence a strong interest in emotional and psychological states. Schiele’s tragic life ended when he contracted the Spanish Flu in 1918, he was only 28 years old.

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