Series on Culture and Literature: The Life and Poetry of Georg Trakl in the Shadow of First World War
Akian Art GalleryGeorg Trakl, (born Feb. 3, 1887, Salzburg, Austria—died Nov. 3, 1914, Cracow, Galicia, Austria-Hungary). Expressionist poet whose emotional life story and wartime torments made him Austria’s foremost elegist of decay and death. Like other famous Austrian artists (e.g. painters Oskar Kokoschka and Egon Schiele, composer Alban Berg, writers Robert Musil and Heimito von Doderer) he […]