# Portrait of Paris von Gütersloh [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [SCHIELE, Egon]() - Date: 1851-1900 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 140 x 110 cm ## Commentary Due to Schiele's death from an influenza epidemic in 1918, he never completed this painting of his friend Paris von Gütersloh \(1887-1973\). Nonetheless, it remains a masterpiece of Austrian Expressionist portraiture. Gütersloh was a painter, writer, actor, producer, and stage designer, who wrote the first study of Schiele's art in 1911. Schiele admired his friend's extraordinary intellectual and artistic talents and sought to portray him as a creative genius. With his hands elevated in a gesture of both attraction and repulsion, Gütersloh is shown with his eyes transfixed and body tense at the moment of artistic inspiration. ## Related artworks - [Agony \(The Death Struggle\)]() - [Cardinal and Nun \(Caress\)]() - [Crescent of Houses II \(Island Town\)]() - [Kümmernis \(Sorrow\)]() - [Krumau - Crescent of Houses \(The Small City V\)]() - [Landscape at Krumau]() - [Lovemaking]() - [Portrait of a Child]() - [Portrait of Otto Wagner]() - [Portrait of Wally Neuzil]() - [Poster for the 49th Exhibition of the Vienna Secession \(Secession 49. Ausstellung\)]() - [Seated Male Nude \(Self-Portrait\)]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()