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View all 299 artworks. Egon Schiele lived in the XIX – XX cent., a remarkable figure of Austrian Expressionism. Find more works of this artist at Wikiart.org – best visual art database.
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- The Artist's Sister, Melanie
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- Poster for The Vienna Secession, 49th Exhibition, Die Freunde
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- Fighter, 1913
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- Portrait of Valerie Neuzil
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- Spitalskirche, Molding
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With its 43 paintings, over 200 watercolors, drawings, and prints, as well as numerous writings and miscellaneous texts, the Leopold Museum houses the largest and most important Schiele collection in the world. Masterpieces by Egon Schiele and Gustav Klimt, Vienna 1900 and Art Nouveau.
May 7, 2024 · Egon Schiele (1890-1918) was an Austrian painter known for his striking and provocative portraits and nudes. A protege of Gustav Klimt, Schiele developed his own distinctive style that often explored themes of sexuality, death, and the human form.
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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 20thcentury. The artist, who w...
Schiele's portraits and self-portraits helped re-establish the vitality of both genres with their unprecedented level of emotional and sexual directness and use of figural distortion in place of co...Creating some three thousand drawings over the course of his brief career, Schiele was both an extraordinarily prolific and unparalleled draughtsman. He regarded drawing as his primary art form, ap...Painter Gustav Klimtwas the primary influence on Schiele's development, serving as Schiele's friend and mentor. While Schiele inherited Klimt's focus on erotic images of the female form (and shared...Childhood
Egon Schiele was born into modest means in Tulln an der Donau ("on the Danube"), a small but vibrant Austrian town also known as Blumenstadt, or "city of flowers." He was the third child born to Adolf Schiele, who worked as a stationmaster for the Austrian State Railways, and Marie Soukupova, who originally hailed from the Bohemian town of Cesky Krumlov (Krumau), now the site of the Egon Schiele Art Centrum, a museum dedicated primarily to the artist's work. Schiele had two older sisters, Mel...
Early Training
In 1907, Schiele sought out Klimt, whose work he already greatly admired, and the two quickly formed a mentor-mentee relationship that would have a major impact on the young artist's early development. Klimt not only exerted his influence over Schiele in the studio, but also in introducing Schiele to patrons, models, and the work of other artists—such as Vincent van Gogh, Edvard Munch, and Jan Toorop—about whom Schiele, despite being a devoted art student, had little occasion to learn, given...
Mature Period
Shortly after forming the Neuekunstgruppe, Schiele began enjoying modest success as a painter and draughtsman, and in 1911 he had his first solo exhibition, at Vienna's Galerie Miethke, where the artist's increasing penchant for self-portraiture and sexualized—often approaching lewd—studies of young women were on display. While Schiele’s work scandalized Viennese society, at the same time he sold many of his explicit images to private collectors, as he wrote, “Doing an awful lot of advertisin...
- Austrian
- June 12, 1890
- Tuln an de Donau, near Vienna, Austria
- October 31, 1918
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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The twisted body shapes and the expressive line that characterize Schiele's paintings and drawings mark the artist as an early exponent of Expressionism. Gustav Klimt, a figurative painter of the early 20th century, was a mentor to Schiele.
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