Richard Gerstl Was Born 143 Years Ago Today. His Nude Self-Portrait Laid the Body Bare Like Nothing Before It.
On September 14, 1883, Richard Gerstl was born into a prosperous Jewish merchant family in Vienna. He died twenty-five years
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The Nude Self-Portrait: When the Artist Becomes the Body
When an artist paints their own naked body, something shifts. The distance between observer and observed collapses. The artist stops