Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951)

Aliases: Arnold Schönberg

Professions: Painter

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  SCHOENBERG, ARNOLD.

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  SCHOENBERG,

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  SCHOENBERG, ARNOLD. 1874-1951. Autograph Musical Quotation Signed ("Arnold Schoenberg"), 1 p, 103 x 240 mm, n.p., March 1, 1934,

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  SCHOENBERG, ARNOLD.

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Arnold Schoenberg Biography

(b Vienna, 13 Sept 1874; d Los Angeles, 13 July 1951). Austrian composer, painter and writer. He became an American citizen in 1941. Schoenberg took painting lessons from c . 1906 from Richard Gerstl, who long after his death was recognized as one of the leading exponents of Austrian Expressionism. For personal reasons involving Gerstl’s affair with his first wife, Schoenberg later in general denied Gerstl’s influence, which in any case was not lasting; Schoenberg remained an amateur and his painting was secondary to his life’s work as a composer and writer of theoretical musical texts, for which he is much better known. He executed approximately 60 paintings and 200 drawings: only twelve of the extant paintings are dated, eleven 1910 and one 1912; most of this output dates from before the end of 1912, during a period of personal and professional difficulty. Schoenberg’s paintings are generally small in size and fall into two groups: a series of technically inept portraits and occasional landscapes on the one hand, and highly expressive visionary works on the other.

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