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      • Egon Leo Adolf Ludwig Schiele (German: [ˈeːɡɔn ˈʃiːlə] ⓘ; 12 June 1890 – 31 October 1918) was an Austrian Expressionist painter. His work is noted for its intensity and its raw sexuality, and for the many self-portraits the artist produced, including nude self-portraits.
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    Egon Leo Adolf Ludwig Schiele ( German: [ˈeːɡɔn ˈʃiːlə] ⓘ; 12 June 1890 – 31 October 1918) was an Austrian Expressionist painter. His work is noted for its intensity and its raw sexuality, and for the many self-portraits the artist produced, including nude self-portraits.

    • HE WAS GUSTAV KLIMT’S PROTÉGÉ. As a teenager, Egon Schiele idolised Gustav Klimt. Klimt was the founder and leader of the Viennese Secession and had a wealth of experience in painting, sketching and murals.
    • HE COULDN’T TAKE HIS EYES OFF HIS SUBJECTS (LITERALLY) According to art historian Albert Elsen, Schiele used Auguste Rodin’s continuous drawing technique to create his loose, fluid figurative sketches.
    • HE SPENT TIME IN PRISON. Schiele’s intense portraits frequently featured nude figures, which were unapologetic, contorted and emotionally-charged. The police confiscated hundreds of his works due to their sexually explicit nature.
    • HIS ART WAS GIVEN AN UNWANTED LABEL. When Adolf Hitler came to power in 1933, he ordered the National Socialist (Nazi) authorities to seize any European artwork that he didn't approve of.
  3. Egon Schiele has long enjoyed a cultish following, and his brief life has all too frequently been mythologized. His early death, his fascination with taboo subjects, and his consequent prosecution have prompted biographers to portray him as a martyr to bourgeois morality, a sort of fin-de-siècle rebel with a cause.

  4. In a brief life cut short by the Spanish flu, Egon Schiele (1890–1918) managed to create an oeuvre that was both symptomatic of and groundbreaking for his times, making him one of the most formative and colorful figures of Viennese Modernism.

  5. Feb 21, 2018 · Klimt was the archetypical sensualist who portrayed Vienna’s elite in gilded finery whilst Schiele, almost three decades his junior, was a tortured egoist whose twisted depictions of the human...

  6. May 29, 2019 · Egon Schiele is one of the leading figures of Austrian Expressionism. Schiele’s psychologically and emotionally charged works are known for their figurative distortions, sinuous linework, unconventional composition and expert application of color.

  7. Oct 19, 2018 · Egon Schiele, Russian Prisoner of War, 1915 Photo: Johannes Stoll © Belvedere, Vienna

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