Curator Tour: The World of Schiele's Landscapes

Megan Brandow-Faller, City University of New York
Janis Staggs, Neue Galerie New York

The reputation of Austrian Expressionist painter Egon Schiele is based primarily on his portraits, self-portraits, and erotic images, which earned him a reputation as the enfant terrible of the Klimt circle. Yet during his brief and turbulent career, Schiele also emerged as a prolific landscape painter, creating more such pictures than his more famous figural works. Schiele’s landscapes and cityscapes are infused with melancholy, which critics attributed to the artist's deep appreciation for the Gothic period. Join us for a curator-led tour of the special exhibition “Egon Schiele: Living Landscapes.” This is an opportunity to see seminal works by the artist and learn more about Schiele and his influences.

About The Speakers

Megan Brandow-Faller is Professor of History at the City University of New York Kingsborough. Her research focuses on art and design in Secessionist and interwar Vienna, including children’s art, folk art, the expressionist ceramics of the Wiener Werkstätte, and women’s art education. She is the author of The Female Secession: Art and the Decorative at the Viennese Women’s Academy, and served as co-editor (with Laura Morowitz) of Erasures and Eradications in Modern Viennese Art Architecture and Design. Her newest project, Child Creativity in the Visual Arts from Secessionist Vienna to Postwar America, focuses on the dissemination and popularization of Secessionist ideas of child creativity in postwar America.

Janis Staggs is Director of Curatorial and Manager of Publications at Neue Galerie New York. A specialist in the decorative arts, her work focuses on the intersection between the fine and the decorative arts. During her tenure, she has curated a number of exhibitions, including “Wiener Werkstätte Jewelry,” “Gustav Klimt and Adele Bloch-Bauer: The Woman in Gold,” and “Klimt Landscapes,” and co-curated “Ernst Ludwig Kirchner” (with Jill Lloyd), and “Wiener Werkstätte, 1903-1932: The Luxury of Beauty” (with Christian Witt-Dörring). She has contributed essays to various Neue Galerie catalogues and outside publications. Her most recent article on Dagobert Peche and Joseph Urban will appear in PECHE POP: Tracing Dagobert Peche in the 21st Century.

Event Details

This curator-led tour, presented on-site at Neue Galerie New York, is organized in conjunction with “The World of Schiele's Landscapes,” an online course by Roundtable by the 92nd Street Y New York. The course features a series of three online lectures by Megan Brandow-Faller, exploring the broader artistic and cultural milieu surrounding Schiele, his training in Secessionist Vienna, his relationship to the applied arts, and his close ties with key patrons as well as his promotional self-posturing.

Tickets

$65 per person.
Includes admission to Neue Galerie New York. Please note that tickets are nonrefundable.