Egon Schieleโs poignant final sketch of his mentor Gustav Klimt, capturing vulnerability & loss during the Spanish Flu pandemic. Acrylic on canvas, 1918.
โThe Artistโs Deathโ or โThe Last Friendโ
Zygmunt Andrychiewicz, 1901.
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โThe painting is of an artistโs last moments among the living. Death, embodied as a fiddler with a touch of melancholia in both appearance and atmosphere, is playing music by his bedside. With a palette and brushes scattered across the floor, the artist lies surrounded by his unfinished works, symbolizing the abrupt end of his creative journey.โ
โDeath looking at vanityโ
Thomas Rowlandson, 1756-1827. Note the quote from Hamlet which was written along the bottom border of the painting. โLet her paint an inch think, to this favor she must come.โ The artist captures the meaning behind the quote in his painting, indicating that you can only attempt to maintain youth and beauty for so long before time wins and you too are stripped down to bones and deteriorating flesh :)
Egon Schiele's (1890 โ 1918) death bed sketch of his wife Edith, who was six months pregnant at the time. He himself was dying even as he drew this. Edith succumbed to influenza on the 28th Oct (1918). Egon died three days later. Both died during the 1918 influenza pandemic (also known by the misnomer Spanish flu pandemic). โโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโUnable to speak to her husband due to her illness on October 27th Edith wrote...
โ๐ ๐๐ ๐ง๐ ๐ช๐ ๐ฆ ๐๐ฅ๐๐ฃ๐๐๐๐๐ช ๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐ง๐ ๐ช๐ ๐ฆ ๐๐ ๐ฃ๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐ฃ๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ฅ๐๐๐ช ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ค๐ฆ๐ฃ๐๐๐๐ช.โ - ๐ผ๐๐๐ฅ๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐. #spanishflu #history #art #darkart #egonschiele #egonschieleswomen
