Treasury of portraits, character studies, nudes, more, by great Viennese Expressionist.

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. He was an Austrian painter, a protege of Gustav Klimt and important figurative painter of the early 20th century. The twisted body shapes and the expressive line that characterize his paintings and drawings mark the artist as one an earliest exponent of Expressionism. In Schiele's early years, he was strongly influenced by Klimt and Kokoschka but soon evolved into his own characteristic style. He focused on...

Egon Schiele (1890-1918) wird heute als einer der maßgeblichen Wegbereiter der Moderne in Österreich angesehen. Obwohl er zu Lebzeiten bereits Erfolge feiern konnte und nach seinem Tod als der wichtigste Künstler Österreichs galt, dauerte es bis in die frühen 1950er-Jahre, bevor seine herausragende Bedeutung für die Kunst erkannt wurde.