Book blurb: "Vienna at the turn of the century was a cauldron of exciting and revolutionary n-c developments in the arts and sciences. The city of Freud. Mahler and Schoen- berg. it was also the home of three great visual artists who. although temperamen- tally very different. shared a radical approach \to their work and an extraordinary virtuosity in their use of line and colour. Gustay-Klimt's superb drawings have an arresting immediacy. Most are of women. manyg in unexpected. poses. allusively r yet unmistakably-erotic. Of Klimt's two oulstanding pupils. the younger. Egon Schiele. was initialy the closer to his master Yet his figures. also often erotic. seem sometimes to be in the grip of a nameless agony At the peak of his powers he died. like Klimt himself. n the influenza epidernic of 1918. Oskar Kokoschka was to outlive his rival Schiele by over sixty years but his early career up to 1920 forms a distinct and exceptionally rich category within his enormous output. As complex a character as Schiele. he was an angry. revolutionary young artist, and his early drawings and watercolours are among the most disturbing of all the works later classed as Expressionist."