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EGON SCHIELE (1890-1918)
The artist and painter who, during his short life, developed
from a Jugendstil artist into the exponent of Viennese expressionism.
Because nearly his entire family worked for the Austrian railways, Egon
Schiele was expected to do the same. Instead, this self-willed young
man signed up for the Viennese art academy. He admired Sezession and
in particular Gustav Klimt whom he had met in 1907 and who took him
under his wing as a protégé. In Schiele’s early work his liking for
Eastern-Asian art can be recognized immediately, and it links up perfectly
with the illustrative, ornamental Viennese Jugendstil. Later on he developed
a powerful angular style which was entirely his own, and which made
him into the exponent of early Viennese expressionism. Much of his work
consists of portraits, including many self portraits where he sometimes
distinguished himself from his subject in a most frightening fashion.
Its sexual aspect, which is nearly always present, is sometimes explicitly
expressed. The combination of colours, which was added after the drawing
was finished, is sharp and alienating. Death, with which he was frequently
confronted during his short life, played a big part in his choice of
subject. Egon Schiele led a short, eventful and, for those days, scandalous
life. In 1918 he died of the Spanish flu, 28 years of age, and some
months after his young wife Edith fell victim to the same epidemic. |
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