Naked Men. Leopold Museum, until January 28, 2013
Renowned Austrian artist Egon Schiele was only 20 years old when he painted one of his most famous nude self-portraits, in which a yellowish-green body sits unnaturally contorted, introspectively locked inside itself, surrounded by a bare, white canvas. This may not be altogether surprising, considering that the portrait was painted at a time when psychoanalysis was becoming widely popular as a field of psychology.
Egon Schiele is just one of the many well-known artists (including Albrecht Dürer, Peter Paul Rubens, Paul Cézanne, Auguste Rodin, Gustav Klimt, Edvard Munch, Andy Warhol and others) whose paintings of male nudes are on display at the Leopold Museum. From Ancient Greek vase paintings to the present, viewers will see diverse and changing depictions of naked men over the centuries, ranging from erotic symbolism to analyses of social-political processes. This exhibition is unique in the sense that its focus is solely on depictions of naked men, rather than on female nudes, which are a far more common theme in European art.
Museumsplatz 1 1070
www.leopoldmuseum.org
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