Description
Egon Schiele – Portrait of Eduard Kosmack, 1910
This hand-painted Egon Schiele painting, Portrait of Eduard Kosmack, is an oil reproduction of the work he painted in 1910. The original is held by the Belvedere in Vienna.
Who Eduard Kosmack was
Eduard Kosmack (1880–1949) was a Viennese publisher and the editor of the professional journal Der Architekt. In Schiele’s circle he was known for an unusually piercing gaze, and the painter built the portrait around it.
How the figure is placed
Kosmack sits face on, hands clasped in his lap, the body compressed into a narrow vertical column. The eyes look straight out at the viewer and give the portrait its almost hypnotic tension. The background stays empty and pale, with no furniture at all.
The sunflower at his feet
A wilting sunflower with drooping leaves is painted into the lower right corner. Schiele painted sunflowers as subjects in their own right; here one stands beside the sitter as a quiet double, holding the same upright, desiccated pose.
The original’s medium and format
The original is oil on canvas, 99.8 × 99.5 cm (inv. 4702) — an all but square canvas. It is signed and dated “S. 10” to the left of the figure.
Our hand-painted oil reproduction
Our reproduction is hand-painted in oils on canvas and we paint it in the size you choose.
