Though he died at just 28 from the Spanish Flu in 1918, Egon Schiele remains an enduring figure in art history, having achieved lasting fame with his erotic, overtly sexual drawings and paintings. But ...
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 ...
Egon Schiele, “Portrait of Herbert Reiner (Reiner Boy)” (1910), oil on canvas, 101 × 101.5 cm (© Belvedere, Vienna, all images courtesy the Belvedere Museum unless otherwise noted) VIENNA — Two ...
For an artist now best known for his desiccated portraits, “Egon Schiele: Living Landscapes,” on view at New York’s Neue Galerie through mid-January, adds some necessary water to the flower pot. 1 ...
Someone’s bound to make a movie about Egon Schiele. I’m surprised that none of the current crop of young actors with surly expressions and aspirations to be taken seriously as artists has staked a ...
Several museums and collectors have surrendered artworks by Egon Schiele to investigators who say they were looted. But others are asserting that the evidence is inconclusive. By William D. Cohan For ...
Good artworks can rarely be deciphered easily and those that can are generally less fascinating than complex and meaningful ones. This applies to Egon Schiele’s short but highly productive artistic ...
How did Egon Schiele arrive at his particular vision of the human body? This has always puzzled me. If you go back and review his influences, such as Gustav Klimt and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, or ...