Egon Schiele
1890–1918 · Early Modern (Fauvism, Cubism, Expressionism)
Biography
Egon Schiele (1890–1918) was an Austrian Expressionist painter, a protégé of Klimt. His intense, often provocative portraits and nudes, drawn with a raw, angular line, made him one of the key figures of Viennese Modernism. He died of the Spanish flu at twenty-eight.
From the artist’s life
Egon Schiele (1890–1918), a protégé of Klimt, was one of the leading Austrian Expressionists. His raw, angular portraits and nudes were provocative. He died of Spanish flu at 28.
From the page of Portrait of Wally
Paintings in this gallery (2)
Famous works elsewhere
- Seated Woman with Bent Knees 1917
- Death and the Maiden 1915
- Dead City III 1911
- The Family 1918
- The embrace 1917
- The Hermits 1912