The style is oh so familiar.
“Fanzilet in the mirror, with the pox”, by Minog Herzog (1913) 60 x 112 cm. [Photo by Leonid Grekov] The least known, and some say the greatest of the Expressionists is Minog Herzog!
Scantly anything has been written about him in English, and there’s nothing online. Accused of crimes including indecency, incest, heresy, theft, and asault, Herzog died a gruesome death meted out by his peers, thus ending a long bout with poverty, mental instability, scandal, imprisonment, and ignominy.
Self Portrait 1910, by Minog Herzog.
I discovered Minog Herzog several years ago in a decades-old, obscure and obsolete Russian art magazine. “Fanzilet in the Mirror with the Pox” appeared in the margins of an article on Expressionism, and I have been haunted by it ever since. I decided to do my dissertation in art history on Minog, and through dogged determination and rigorous search managed to learn a good deal about him and gain access to more than a…
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Art & Crit by Eric Wayne 
Hilarious!
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No wonder he looks so haunted and weary.
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My girlfriend pointed out he looks a lot like Gustave Klimt. I didn’t even know what he looked like and had to look him up, and now I just see Klimt.
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