Description
Egon Schiele – Portrait of Paris von Gütersloh
Egon Schiele – Portrait of Paris von Gütersloh, 1918
This hand-painted Egon Schiele painting, Portrait of Paris von Gütersloh, is an oil reproduction of a portrait from 1918. The original is held at the Minneapolis Institute of Art in the United States.
Who is in the picture
The sitter is Albert Paris von Gütersloh (born Albert Conrad Kiehtreiber, 1887–1973), a painter, writer, actor and director, and a friend of Schiele. The portrait shows the artist with striking, spread hands.
One of the last works
The painting is among Schiele’s final works: he died in October 1918, aged only twenty-eight, in the Spanish-influenza pandemic, and the portrait is reported by some sources to have been left unfinished.
The original’s medium and format
The original is oil on canvas, measuring 140 × 110.3 cm (inv. 54.30).
Where it is
The painting is now at the Minneapolis Institute of Art, which acquired it in 1954.
Our hand-painted oil reproduction
Our reproduction is hand-painted in oil on canvas and painted in the size you choose.
