Bildnis Dr. Franz Martin Haberditzl
1917
Medium
Öl auf Leinwand
Dimensions
140 × 110 cm
Classification
Gemälde
Department
Belvedere Collection
Museum
Belvedere
Credit
Belvedere, Vienna
Accession Number
9638
About this artwork
Der Kunsthistoriker Prof. Dr. Franz Martin Haberditzl (1882–1944) war von 1915 bis 1938 Direktor der Österreichischen Galerie.
Art Historical Context
Egon Schiele's *Bildnis Dr. Franz Martin Haberditzl* (1917) is a striking oil-on-canvas portrait measuring 140 × 110 cm, now housed in Vienna's Belvedere Collection. The subject, Prof. Dr. Franz Martin Haberditzl (1882–1944), served as director of the Österreichische Galerie from 1915 to 1938, playing a pivotal role in promoting modern Austrian art during a turbulent era marked by World War I. Painted in Schiele's signature Expressionist style, the work captures Haberditzl's intense gaze and angular features with raw psychological depth. Unlike the fluid elegance of his mentor Gustav Klimt, S...
About the Artist
Egon Schiele · 1890–1918
Egon Schiele (1890-1918) stands as one of the most provocative and psychologically penetrating artists of early twentieth-century European modernism. Born in Tulln an der Donau, Austria-Hungary, Schiele's brief but intensely productive life ended tragically at age twenty-eight when he and his pregnant wife Edith succumbed to the Spanish flu pandemic, mere days apart. Despite his truncated career, ...