Frame
The frame has a minimalist aesthetic with clean lines and an unobtrusive design. The frame is made of high-quality plastic (PS), which ensures durability while maintaining a lightweight design. The dimensions of the frame include a width of 5 cm and a thickness of 3 cm, which makes it capacious enough to reliably support canvas of various sizes. This frame is perfect for contemporary art styles including abstraction, minimalism and pop art due to its flawless simplicity. Its white color provides a versatile background that can accommodate a wide range of colors, bright hues that benefit from contrasting borders, or black and white elements that need a consistent tonal framework to retain their vibrancy.
Schönberg stands top left, Zemlinsky seated below him next to Ida and Mathilde. The third couple are not identified, but may be Karl Horwitz (Schönberg’s student) and his wife, Mizzi, who were on honeymoon. A sunstrewn backdrop, applied with a palette knife, shares the rich ochres and greens that typified Gerstl’s Gmunden portraits from 1908. Here, though, Gerstl stretched his evolving techniques, distorting faces, so that indistinguishable close up, they become gradually recognisable as the viewer draws back.