The importance of visual arts in Schoenberg

I would cite four different aspects of the affect that the visual arts had on Schoenberg: Painting as a mode of self-expression; Incorporation of visual arts into dramatic works (Gesamtkunstwerk); Support and Camaraderie: an aspect of the inter-arts movement in Vienna, and Homogenous Aesthetic Theories between his Expressionistic music and Expressionistic painters. Additionally, I will discuss why Expressionistic painting seemed to hold a limited appeal for him.

Schoenberg's associations with painters perhaps helped him to formulate his own ideas of the aesthetics of art. Indeed, he had a close relationship with the painters Wassily Kandinsky and Richard Gerstl, and he knew many other artists, such as Kokoschka, Marc and Adolph Loos , the architect. Seeing their works perhaps encouraged him to take up painting himself, and Gerstl taught him for a short period.

In turn-of the century Vienna, artists of all disciplines mingled with each other, both socially and intellectually. For example, Gustav Mahler married Alma Schindler, daughter of the painter Email Jacob Schin

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