6/internal/media/dispatcher/128288/fullSelf-Portrait, Laughing1908[Richard Gerstl]Richard GerstlOil on canvas In his short artistic career, Richard Gerstl remained an outsider. A passionate music lover and student at the Vienna academy, he refused to exhibit his works in public and had little contact with colleagues. Independently from the various artist groups in Vienna, from 1905 onward he started developing a radically modern expressiveness that seems ahead of its time and was probably inspired by the works of Edvard Munch. When he died at the young age of twenty-five, he left behind around eighty works, which did not become known to a wider public until several decades later. They include numerous selfportraits, mostly with a serious expression. Even the laugh captured with wild brushstrokes in this portrait is more menacing than cheerful.Paintinghttps://sammlungtest.belvedere.at/objects/2829/rdf/internal/media/dispatcher/3271/fullProfessor Ernst Diezbefore 1907[Richard Gerstl]Richard GerstlOil on canvasDer Dargestellte ist der Kunsthistoriker Professor Dr. Ernst Diez (1878-1961).Paintinghttps://sammlungtest.belvedere.at/objects/2830/rdf/internal/media/dispatcher/6063/fullMathilde Schönbergbefore summer 1907[Richard Gerstl]Richard GerstlTempera on canvasMathilde Schönberg (1877-1923) war die Gattin des Komponisten Arnold Schönberg (1874-1951).Paintinghttps://sammlungtest.belvedere.at/objects/3512/rdf/internal/media/dispatcher/19149/fullTracks of the Cog Railway on Kahlenberg1907[Richard Gerstl]Richard GerstlOil on canvasPaintinghttps://sammlungtest.belvedere.at/objects/4600/rdf/internal/media/dispatcher/6072/fullWoman with Child (Mathilde Schoenberg with Daughter Gertrud)1906[Richard Gerstl]Richard GerstlOil on canvasMathilde Schönberg (1877-1923), die Gattin des Komponisten Arnold Schönberg (1874-1951), mit Tochter Gertrud (geb. 1902).Paintinghttps://sammlungtest.belvedere.at/objects/4601/rdf/internal/media/dispatcher/5291/fullThe Sisters Karoline and Pauline Fey1905[Richard Gerstl]Richard GerstlOil on canvasRichard Gerstl is a tragic figure. Although he never experienced material hardships in his brief existence, his life was overshadowed by melancholy and beset by disaster at every turn. He was the first of the young Expressionists to abandon the curvilinear contours, ornaments, and blossoms of Jugendstil. The Fey sisters rise like phantoms before the dark, empty space surrounding them. They pay no attention to each other; their faces are frozen like masks, their skin unnaturally pale, their lips bloodless. Schiele and Kokoschka composed their pictures in equally radical ways. But Gerstl was the only one of the three to receive no recognition during his life, cut short by his suicide in 1908.Paintinghttps://sammlungtest.belvedere.at/objects/3224/rdf