Portrait of Victor Ritter von Bauer

Portrait of Victor Ritter von Bauer

Egon Schiele

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Details

Artist
Egon Schiele
Date
1918
Holding institution
Belvedere, Vienna
Image provider
wikimedia-commons
License
Public domain
Credit
Belvedere, Vienna

Art Genome Taxonomy

9 tags

Subject Matter

  • Individual Portrait Both · 99%

    The title identifies Victor Ritter von Bauer as the sitter, and the image visibly presents one person as the central subject of a portrait.

Styles and Movements

  • Expressionism Interpretive · 82%

    The emphatic contours, heightened treatment of the face and hands, elongated bodily proportions, and visibly agitated brushwork support a visual association with Expressionism. The supplied catalog does not provide a style classification.

Visual Qualities

  • Angular Visual · 93%

    Sharp, slanting, and intersecting contours are prominent in the sitter’s limbs, clothing, chair, and surrounding ground.

  • Earth Tones Visual · 96%

    Ochre, mustard yellow, olive green, muted brown, and gray dominate the painted surface, with localized orange, red, and blue accents.

  • Highly Detailed Visual · 90%

    The face, suit, hands, chair, and background contain extensive descriptive marks and visible linear and brush-painted detail.

Medium and Techniques

  • Painting Metadata · 99%

    The catalog classifies the work as a painting.

  • Oil Painting Metadata · 99%

    The catalog identifies the medium as oil paint on canvas.

Time Periods

  • 1918 - 1939 (Interwar) Art Metadata · 99%

    The catalog dates the work to 1918, which falls within the catalog’s 1918–1939 interwar period category.

Furniture and Lighting

  • Chair Visual · 97%

    A substantial chair with slatted and warm brown-orange structural elements is clearly visible beneath and behind the sitter.

Source & rights

Egon Schiele. https://digital.belvedere.at/objects/1955/victor-ritter-von-bauer

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