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Artist: Egon Schiele. Austrian expressionist (and Nazi-deemed “Degenerate Artist”) Egon Schiele’s Portrait of Wally has been at the center of a very public case of ongoing litigation and attempts to return the Nazi looted painting back to its heirs. The painting is a portrait of Schiele’s romantic partner and muse, Walburga "Wally" Neuzil.
- 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.
Egon Schiele. 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.
Summary of Egon Schiele. With his signature graphic style, embrace of figural distortion, and bold defiance of conventional norms of beauty, Egon Schiele was one of the leading figures of Austrian Expressionism. His portraits and self-portraits, searing explorations of their sitters' psyches and sexuality, are among the most remarkable of the ...
- Austrian
- June 12, 1890
- Tuln an de Donau, near Vienna, Austria
- October 31, 1918
Jan 24, 2017 · In 1937, two competing exhibitions caused a dramatic split in the art world. In one, traditional German art held sway. The other featured the ‘degenerate’ modern art hated by Hitler.
May 29, 2019 · Egon Schiele, Zwei Freundinnen (Two Friends), executed in 1917. Sold at Sotheby’s on 5 November, 2015 for $586,000. 6. His oeuvre is one of the most frankly erotic in the Western canon. Schiele once said, “Even the erotic work of art is sacred!”. His candid treatment of sexuality is, indeed, reverential.
Oct 1, 2018 · Book online or call 020 7300 8090. As the drawings of Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele go on show at the Royal Academy, Jill Lloyd reveals how these two giants of 20th-century Viennese modernism fuelled one another’s innovations on paper to push the boundaries of art and depict the human figure as never before.
