Description

Egon Schiele Di-Litho ‘PROOF’

‘Woman with black stockings’ – COA

2007 edition – non authorized copy

Egon Schiele (1890 – 1918)

Di-Litho “woman with black stockings”

After the original 1913 ink wash drawing representing Wally Neuzil

Specifications

✓ Special non-authorized edition by Bolermo (2007)

✓ Printed single-sided on heavy designer paper

✓ Size : 42 cm x 29,5 cm (16.8″ x 11.8″)

✓ Signed in the plate – numbered on reverse

✓ Leer ex (Proof) edition – Certification on the reverse side

Information on Egon Schiele

Egon Schiele (June 12, 1890 – October 31, 1918) was an Austrian painter.

A protégé of Gustav Klimt, Schiele was a major figurative painter of the early 20th century.

His work is noted for its intensity, and the many self-portraits the artist produced.

The twisted body shapes and the expressive line that characterize Schiele’s paintings and drawings mark the artist as an early exponent of Expressionism.

In 1907, Schiele sought out Gustav Klimt.

Klimt, mentoring younger artists, took a particular interest in the gifted young Schiele, buying his drawings, offering to exchange them for some of his own, arranging models for him, and introducing him to potential patrons.

Klimt invited Schiele to exhibit some of his work at the 1909 Vienna Kunstschau, where he encountered the work of Edvard Munch, Jan Toorop, and Vincent van Gogh among others.

Once free of the constraints of the Academy’s conventions, Schiele began to explore not only the human form but also human sexuality.

At the time, many found the explicitness of his works disturbing.

In 1911, Schiele met the seventeen-year-old Valerie (Wally) Neuzil, who lived with him in Vienna and served as a model for some of his most striking paintings.

Very little is known of her, except that she had previously modeled for Gustav Klimt and might have been one of his mistresses.

In 1914, Schiele glimpsed the sisters Edith and Adéle Harms, who lived with their parents across the street from his studio in the Viennese suburb of Hietzing.

Schiele participated in numerous group exhibitions.

Including those of the Neukunstgruppe in Prague in 1910 and Budapest in 1912; the Sonderbund, Cologne, in 1912; and several Secessionist shows in Munich, beginning in 1911.

In 1913, the Galerie Hans Goltz, Munich, mounted Schiele’s first solo show. A solo exhibition of his work took place in Paris in 1914.

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.

In his early years, Schiele was strongly influenced by Klimt and Kokoschka.

Although imitations of their styles, particularly with the former, are noticeably visible in Schiele’s first works, he soon evolved into his own distinctive style.

Some view Schiele’s work as being grotesque, erotic, pornographic, or disturbing, focusing on sex, death, and discovery.

He focused on portraits of others as well as himself.

In his later years, while he still worked often with nudes, they were done in a more realistic fashion.

Information on di-litho

The di-litho technology, a lithographic technology in which the printing plate prints directly onto the printing substrate, was basically uniquely created for newspaper printing. The benefit of this technology was that conventional letterpress rotary printing presses could be used. The printing units of these presses have been modified by the installing of a dampening unit.

Printing was done with conventional printing plates, however, a special coating needed to be applied to them because of the very high tension because of the direct contact with the paper and the high stability with the full print run necessary in newspaper printing or the more expensive art-litho printing.

Information on Bolermo Group (issuer of these lithos)

Bolermo was an unofficial and not quite formel group, founded in 1995 and organized by Viktor Boler. The group was helping young and upcoming artists, designers, sculptors, etc. by giving them the materials for creating their ‘art’, and amongst these materials were the printing machines for graphics and etchings using different techniques. Amongst these techniques: the Di-Litho! These printed Di-Lithos were extra painted with oil and/or aquarel and sometimes with mixed materials to give an unexpected and unique ‘touch’ of the once existing ‘images’. But it also means that a lot of the Di-Lithos are non-authorized by the original artist and as such extremely rare and sought-after artifacts!

The name Bolermo which the group used for printed material came directly from the founder himself as he used to sign with Boler. Due to the persistent illness of Viktor Boler, the group was dissolved in 2012 and completely closed down. The heirs of V. Boler sold the existing stock of printed and re-worked lithos during public auctions and as such came into my possession.