Franz von Bayros
Template:Short description Template:Infobox artist Franz von Bayros (28 May 1866 – 3 April 1924) was an Austrian commercial artist, illustrator, and painter, best known for his controversial Tales at the Dressing Table portfolio.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He belonged to the Decadent movement in art, often utilizing erotic themes and phantasmagoric imagery.<ref name=":0">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Early yearsEdit
Bayros was born in Zagreb, which was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and is, today, Croatia. At the age of seventeen, he passed the entrance examination for the Vienna Academy with Eduard von Engerth. Bayros mixed in high society and was part of the circle of friends of Johann Strauss II, whose stepdaughter Alice he married in 1896. The next year, Bayros moved to Munich.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Career and deathEdit
In 1904, he gave his first exhibition in Munich, which was well received. From 1904 until 1908, he traveled to Paris and Italy to further his studies. In 1911, he created his most famous and controversial work, Tales from the Dressing Table for which he was later arrested and exiled from Germany.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Returning to Vienna, he felt like an outsider and the outbreak of the First World War increased his sense of alienation. His work can be found at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.<ref name=":0" /> He drew over 2000 illustrations in total.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
The artist died in Vienna in 1924, from a cerebral hemorrhage.
GalleryEdit
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- Franz von Bayros Erotische Darstellung 2.jpg
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- Franz von Bayros Die Nashornjägerin 1907.jpg
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External linksEdit
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- The Decadence of the Marquis von Bayros
- Dark Art: Bayros gallery
- Franz von Bayros Gallery and Biography Template:Webarchive
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