The 64 Artworks of Richard Gerstl

“Schlafender Griechin” or Erlakogel, is a peak to the south of the lake, whose outlook is not easily attainable from the eastern shore, so it is likely that Gerstl, having almost entirely dispensed with his earlier pointillism, painted it using broader strokes and swirls whilst in a boat on the lake...

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Diez, who was Schönberg’s student, wrote in a letter that this was one of two portraits that Gerstl painted of him in 1906, almost certainly after Diez had returned that autumn from a summer placement in Rome . Diez claims that the portrait was originally intended to be a commission, organised by Sc...

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Schönberg stands top left, Zemlinsky seated below him next to Ida and Mathilde. The third couple are not identified, but may be Karl Horwitz (Schönberg’s student) and his wife, Mizzi, who were on honeymoon. A sunstrewn backdrop, applied with a palette knife, shares the rich ochres and greens that ty...

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