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Egon Schiele

Egon Schiele
Painter
Egon Schiele was an Austrian painter. A protégé of Gustav Klimt, Schiele was a major figurative painter of the early 20th century. Wikipedia
Born: June 12, 1890, Tulln an der Donau, Austria
Died: October 31, 1918, Vienna, Austria
Spouse: Edith Harms (m. 1915–1918)
Known for: Painting
Siblings: Gertrude SchieleEgon Schiele (German: [ˈʃiːlə] ( listen) ƩEE-lə; 12 June 1890 – 31 October 1918) was an Austrian painter. A protégé of Gustav Klimt, Schiele was a major figurative painter of the early 20th century. His work is noted for its intensity and its raw sexuality, and the many self-portraits the artist produced, including naked self-portraits. The twisted body shapes and the expressive line that characterize Schiele's paintings and drawings mark the artist as an early exponent of Expressionism.
Schiele was born in 1890 in Tulln, Lower Austria. His father, Adolf Schiele, was the station master of the Tulln station in the Austrian State Railways; his mother Marie, née Soukupová, was a Czech from Český Krumlov (Krumau), in southern Bohemia. As a child, Schiele was fascinated by trains, and would spend many hours drawing them, to the point where his father felt obliged to destroy his sketchbooks. When he was 11 years old, Schiele moved to the nearby city of Krems (and later to Klosterneuburg) to attend secondary school. To those around him, Schiele was regarded as a strange child. Shy and reserved, he did poorly at school except in athletics and drawing, and was usually in classes made up of younger pupils. He also displayed incestuous tendencies towards his younger sister Gertrude (who was known as Gerti), and his father, well aware of Egon's behaviour, was once forced to break down the door of a locked room that Egon and Gerti were in to see what they were doing (only to discover that they were developing a film). When he was sixteen he took the twelve-year-old Gerti by train to Trieste without permission and spent a night in a hotel room with her.
Academy of Fine Arts

When Schiele was 15 years old, his father died from syphilis, and he became a ward of his maternal uncle, Leopold Czihaczec, also a railway official.Although he wanted Schiele to follow in his footsteps, and was distressed at his lack of interest in academia, he recognised Schiele's talent for drawing and unenthusiastically allowed him a tutor; the artist Ludwig Karl Strauch. In 1906 Schiele applied at the Kunstgewerbeschule (School of Arts and Crafts) in Vienna, where Gustav Klimt had once studied. Within his first year there, Schiele was sent, at the insistence of several faculty members, to the more traditional Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Vienna in 1906. His main teacher at the academy was Christian Griepenkerl, a painter whose strict doctrine and ultra-conservative style frustrated and dissatisfied Schiele and his fellow students so much that he left three years later.

Egon Schiele Paintings

 

 

egon schiele girl with green stockings painting 19375

egon schiele girl with green stockings painting 19375

egon schiele head of dr fritsch painting 13168

egon schiele head of dr fritsch painting 13168

egon schiele portrait of an old man johann harms painting 21530

egon schiele portrait of an old man johann harms painting 21530

egon schiele portrait of leopold czihaczek in profile facing left painting 13230

egon schiele portrait of leopold czihaczek in profile facing left painting 13230

egon schiele trees mirrored in a pond painting 13402

egon schiele trees mirrored in a pond painting 13402

Nude woman with a skirt.

Nude woman with a skirt.

Prophets

Prophets

The Small City

The Small City

egon schiele portrait of gerti schiele painting 13225

egon schiele portrait of gerti schiele painting 13225

egon schiele portrait of marga boerner painting 13234

egon schiele portrait of marga boerner painting 13234

egon schiele reclining woman with red blouse painting 13259

egon schiele reclining woman with red blouse painting 13259

egon schiele seated young girl painting 13278

egon schiele seated young girl painting 13278

egon schiele summer landscape krumau painting 22593

egon schiele summer landscape krumau painting 22593

Yellow City

Yellow City

egon schiele krumau in moldavia at kleinstadt painting 20154

egon schiele krumau in moldavia at kleinstadt painting 20154

egon schiele masturbation painting 20772

egon schiele masturbation painting 20772

egon schiele sitting woman with blue hair ribbon painting 22223

egon schiele sitting woman with blue hair ribbon painting 22223

egon schiele vast half bare woman painting 24057

egon schiele vast half bare woman painting 24057

Sailing ships in the waves exciting water the harbour of Trieste

Sailing ships in the waves exciting water the harbour of Trieste

Seated nude girl

Seated nude girl

Study of a couple

Study of a couple

The Brother

The Brother

The Poet

The Poet

Danae

Danae

egon schiele nude with a blue headband painting 21190

egon schiele nude with a blue headband painting 21190

egon schiele portrait of the publisher eduard kismack painting 21572

egon schiele portrait of the publisher eduard kismack painting 21572

egon schiele stein on the danube painting 22397

egon schiele stein on the danube painting 22397

egon schiele the bridge painting 22921

egon schiele the bridge painting 22921

Portrait of the Actress Marge Boerner

Portrait of the Actress Marge Boerner

Reclining Woman with Blond Hair

Reclining Woman with Blond Hair

egon schiele boy in a sailor suit painting 13130

egon schiele boy in a sailor suit painting 13130

egon schiele einzeine hauser painting 13151

egon schiele einzeine hauser painting 13151

egon schiele squatting male act selfportrait painting 22354

egon schiele squatting male act selfportrait painting 22354

Mother and daughter

Mother and daughter

Seated Woman

Seated Woman

egon schiele autumn tree painting 17392

egon schiele autumn tree painting 17392

egon schiele houses before mountain slope painting 19737

egon schiele houses before mountain slope painting 19737

egon schiele self portrait with hand to cheek painting 13293

egon schiele self portrait with hand to cheek painting 13293

egon schiele standing girl in a blue dress and green stockings back view painting 22372

egon schiele standing girl in a blue dress and green stockings back view painting 22372

Melons

Melons

Nude baby.

Nude baby.

Pregnant Woman and Death

Pregnant Woman and Death

Self portrait 1912

Self portrait 1912

Sitting woman with blue hair ribbon

Sitting woman with blue hair ribbon

The Holy Family

The Holy Family