The art academy failed to recognise his talent; he rejected the
contemporary art scene in Vienna; and his visionary work was
largely neglected during his lifetime: the painter Richard Gerstl
(1883-1908), whose creative period lasted for just four intensive
years, is regarded today as one of the most important
representatives of Austrian Expressionism for his portraits and
landscapes. With his early pictures Self-Portrait against a Blue
Background and The Sisters Karoline and Pauline Frey Richard Gerstl
began to create an oeuvre which was well ahead of his times and
which made him one of the pioneers of Abstract Expressionism. In
1906 Gerstl met the musician Arnold Schoenberg. He embarked upon an
affair with the latter's wife Mathilde, who briefly left her
husband but then returned to him in 1908. Gerstl not only lost his
lover but was also socially isolated; he committed suicide during
that same year. His work sank into oblivion
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