Sonnenblumen (Sunflowers), 1911
Egon Schiele
Drooping, autumnal sunflowers painted with the same nervous line as his figures.
Schiele's sunflowers droop dark and gaunt, more skeleton than bloom — a haunted answer to van Gogh's blazing versions. Tall, spiky and melancholy, it turns a cheerful subject into brooding Expressionist poetry.
What you're looking at
The flowers are nearly dead. The heads are small and hang, the leaves have gone black and droop off the stalk like rags, and the tall narrow canvas stretches the whole plant until it reads as a figure rather than a still life. Schiele painted it two decades after van Gogh's, and it is hard not to see it as an answer.
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About 2:3, so the matted file. Dark, spare and vertical — a picture for a narrow wall and low light rather than a bright open room.
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