A death mask of the Viennese painter Egon Schiele has sold at auction for £19,000 ($24,600), nearly 10 times its pre-sale estimate. Gustinus Ambrosi’s The Death Mask of Egon Schiele (1918) was one of ...

Egon Schiele, "Town among Greenery (The Old City III)" (1917), oil on canvas; Neue Galerie New York (all images courtesy Neue Galerie New York unless otherwise noted) Egon Schiele could be a late ...

Egon Schiele, “Eduard Kosmack” (1910), black chalk, watercolor, and opaque white, Albertina (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic) VIENNA — The Albertina’s astounding retrospective of Egon ...

Known for his erotic paintings as well as his anguished self-portraits, Egon Schiele has remained a controversial figure in art history. Despite his infamy, Gustav Klimt became one of Schiele’s ...

Egon Schiele's "Nude Self‑Portrait," created in 1910 with black chalk, watercolor, gouache and white heightening on brown wrapping paper. (Courtesy of Museum of Fine Arts, Boston) The early ...

Two works by Egon Schiele were returned Friday (19 January) to the heirs of the Austrian Jewish cabaret performer Fritz Grünbaum, from whose art collection the works were allegedly seized by Nazi ...

See more of our coverage in your search results. He was a real bad boy — revered by some, reviled by others — who worked hard, died young and rocked the staid world of Viennese painting. He was Egon ...

Born in Tulln an der Donau, Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1890, Schiele idolised Gustav Klimt. Schiele’s intense portraits famously featured nude figures. The police confiscated hundreds of his works due ...

Tonight in New York, Christie’s will hold their 20 th Century Evening Sale at Rockefeller Center. Among the works being offered for sale are two works on paper by Early 20 th Century Austrian ...

In 1907 the 17-year-old Egon Schiele visited his idol Gustav Klimt at his studio in Vienna to show him some of his drawings. Klimt, then one of Europe’s leading artists, was duly impressed. Did they ...

This shrewd and diverting French drama takes as its inspiration the rediscovery of a long-lost Egon Schiele masterwork. By Manohla Dargis A New York judge found that the Art Institute of Chicago’s ...