Digitization of works by Egon Schiele

Digitization of all works by well-known artists is becoming increasingly fashionable. Egon Schiele will soon be added to the honourable circle of the most eminent painters. The decision to publish an online catalogue was taken by the co-owner of New York's St. Etienne gallery and author of a recent monograph on the artist, Jane Killir.

Jane Killir, Egon Schiele and digitization

Killir's reason for tackling this difficult task is obvious - she wants to keep the memory of Egon alive, as well as that of her great-grandfather, who was the first to publish a full catalogue of Schiele's works in the 1930s. Otto Killir's catalogue was so popular that it was reprinted many times in both the 1960s and 1990s.

Works by artists such as Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo and Hieronymus Bosch are formatted digitally. This is not only an attempt to invite the viewer to visit a virtual museum but also a proposal to invite him or her to see the most important paintings by famous artists.

So it looks like Egon Schiele will finally live to see his works digitized. So far, the ambitious project has posed problems for Jane Killir. New technologies are not as simple as they seem.

Sources: The Art Newspaper, Wiener Zeitung, ArtifixDaily