![]() As Jane Kallir, Otto’s granddaughter, recounts in theĬatalogue for the current Gerstl show, Alois had contemplated throwing Paintings to Otto Kallir’s gallery in Vienna, a showplace for AustrianĮxpressionism. In 1931, Gerstl’s brother Alois brought several of the artist’s View, to the extent that it had ever been noticed. Hushed up the circumstances of his death, and his oeuvre vanished from Plans for posthumous fame-he destroyed many of his papers. Sort of notoriety, but this desperate young man probably had no grand Gerstl’s grisly demise failed to create any This act came in the wake of anĪffair with Mathilde Schoenberg, the wife of the revolutionary modernistĬomposer Arnold Schoenberg, who, that summer, had found Mathilde and November 4, 1908, Gerstl-who had recently turned twenty-five-removed hisĬlothes, strung a noose above a full-length mirror, and hanged himself Gerstl, whose works are the subject of a forthcoming exhibition at the One visitor was the brilliant, unstable young painter Richard After hisĭeath, it became a best-seller, drawing morbid pilgrims to the Beethoven Tract “Sex and Character,” at first received little notice. Weininger’s magnum opus, the anti-Semitic and misogynist Sometimes it seemed as though artists were vying for fame by staging a ![]() Mary Vetsera, who committed double suicide in 1889, precipitating theĮndlessly replayed saga of the Mayerling Affair. The most scandalous episode involved Crown Prince Rudolf and his lover The chemist Max Steiner poisoned himself in 1910. Of the line “Now with my murderer I am alone,” died of an apparent In 1914, the poet Georg Trakl, the author In 1903, the philosopher and sexologist Otto Weininger shot himself The song “I Am Lost” another disappeared on a boat in the Chesapeakeīay. Their own hand: one swallowed cyanide in a Berlin bar, after requesting Three of Wittgenstein’s four brothers died, evidently, by He was reflecting on the disturbing frequency of suicides inįin-de-siècle Austria, especially among younger artists and ![]() “If suicide is allowed, then everything is allowed,” Ludwig Wittgenstein A Richard Gerstl self-portrait dated September 12, 1908. ![]()
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