Gustav Klimt, wearing his painter’s coat in front of his studio, holding one of his cats.
This is the first in a three-part series of stories in ISSUE magazine that focus on notable artists who died in 1918 as a result of the Spanish flu pandemic. Sure, I admit that the flu is just a reason to do a couple of pieces about interesting artists (and three constitutes a seres, so there’s that).
Another driving force was the upcoming Egon Schiele show at Galerie St. Etienne in New York which I plan to review in the December ISSUE. He also died in 1918 of the flu.
Andy Coughlan was born in Brighton, England, and has lived in Texas for more than 30 years. He is an artist, journalist, playwright, director, actor, cartoonist and educator. He is editor of ISSUE, an award-winning arts magazine. Andy's blog, "English with a bit of Texas" has been named best independent blog for the past five years by the Press Club of Southeast Texas. His play, "A Single Drop," was named audience choice best play at the 8x10 Play Festival.
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