Defiantly iconoclastic in life and art, Egon Schiele is esteemed for his masterful draftsmanship and precocious insight into the human condition.
Part of the first wave of Austrian modernism, Schiele was swept away by the Viennese fascination with the tension between Life and Death (known in the works of Freud and his later interpreters as Eros and Thanatos). Life, identified with attraction, love, sexuality, and reproduction, and Death, represented by distortion, disease, repulsion, and hysteria, often appeared in the same composition, thereby suggesting the frightening life cycle of the human mind and body.
Young throughout his career, Schiele universalized his childhood traumas, thriving libido, insecurities, fears, and longings. His contorted line, jarring contrasts, and flat areas of color, demonstrate an early alliance with Expressionist philosophy and artists who were relentlessly frustrated by conventionality in all its forms.
Schiele’s work embodied man’s disorientation and confusion in a seemingly absurd world, a world plagued by disease and war. It continues to be astonishingly relevant today, not just because it helped define modernism but also because it revealed the dark and immutable aspects of the human condition. As Schiele said, “Art is primordially eternal.”
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(Biography provided by Galerie Fledermaus)
E. Strache, Handzeichnungen folio, "Reclining Girl, Half-Figure" Collotype plate
By (after) Egon Schiele
Located in Palm Beach, FL
"Reclining Girl, Half-Figure" Collotype plate E. Strache, Handzeichnungen folio after Egon Schiele (1890 – 1918), AUSTRIA “ART CANNOT BE MODERN, ART IS PRIMORDIALLY ETERNAL.” -SCHI...
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E. Strache, Handzeichnungen folio, "Reclining Female Nude Glancing Up" Collotype
By (after) Egon Schiele
Located in Palm Beach, FL
"Reclining Female Nude Glancing Up" Collotype from E. Strache, Handzeichnungen folio after Egon Schiele (1890 – 1918), AUSTRIA Signed in plate “ART CANNOT BE MODERN, ART IS PRIMORDI...
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E. Strache, Handzeichnungen folio, "Crouching Female Nude" Collotype plate V
By (after) Egon Schiele
Located in Palm Beach, FL
"Crouching Female Nude" Collotype plate from E. Strache, Handzeichnungen folio after Egon Schiele (1890 – 1918), AUSTRIA Signed in plate “ART CANNOT BE MODERN, ART IS PRIMORDIALLY E...
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E. Strache, Handzeichnungen folio, "Artist's Sister-in-Law" Collotype plate
By (after) Egon Schiele
Located in Palm Beach, FL
"Artist's Sister-in-Law" Collotype plate from E. Strache, Handzeichnungen folio After Egon Schiele (1890 – 1918), AUSTRIA Signed on the plate “ART CANNOT BE MODERN, ART IS PRIMORDIA...
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E. Strache, Handzeichnungen folio, "Reclining Female Nude" Collotype plate
By (after) Egon Schiele
Located in Palm Beach, FL
"Reclining Female Nude" Collotype plate from E. Strache, Handzeichnungen folio After Egon Schiele (1890 – 1918), AUSTRIA Signed on plate. “ART CANNOT BE MODERN, ART IS PRIMORDIALLY...
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E. Strache, Handzeichnungen folio, "Female Model, Seated" Collotype plate
By (after) Egon Schiele
Located in Palm Beach, FL
"Female Model, Seated" From E. Strache, Handzeichnungen folio After Egon Schiele (1890 – 1918), AUSTRIA Signed in the plate “ART CANNOT BE MODERN, ART IS PRIMORDIALLY ETERNAL.” -SCH...
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Reclining Nude, Left Leg Raised - Lithograph - 2007
By Egon Schiele
Located in Roma, IT
Reclining Nude, Left Leg Raised is a beautiful lithograph from the portfolio " Erotica " by Egon Schiele. It is a reproduction of the homonym pencil drawing realized by the Austria...
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Reclining Nude, Left Leg Raised - Lithograph - 2007
By Egon Schiele
Located in Roma, IT
Reclining Nude, Left Leg Raised is a beautiful lithograph from the portfolio " Erotica " by Egon Schiele. It is a reproduction of the homonym pencil drawing realized by the Austri...
Lithograph
Reclining Nude, Left Leg Raised - Lithograph - 2007
By Egon Schiele
Located in Roma, IT
Reclining Nude, Left Leg Raised is a beautiful lithograph from the portfolio " Erotica " by Egon Schiele. It is a reproduction of the homonym pencil drawing realized by the Austri...
Lithograph
Reclining Nude, Left Leg Raised - Lithograph after Egon Schiele
By Egon Schiele
Located in Roma, IT
Reclining Nude, Left Leg Raised is a beautiful lithograph from the portfolio " Erotica " after Egon Schiele. It is a reproduction of the homonym pencil drawing realized by the Aus...
Lithograph
Melanie Schiele - Lithograph - 1997
By Egon Schiele
Located in Roma, IT
This lithograph from the portfolio "Egon Schiele" is a reproduction of " Melanie Schiele ", a drawing realized by Egon Schiele in 1906. The portfolio, that includes 10 lithographs on...
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Edith Schiele mit Hund Lord - Original Lithograph after Egon Schiele - 1990
By Egon Schiele
Located in Roma, IT
This lithograph from the portfolio "Egon Schiele" is a reproduction of "Edith Schiele mit Hund Lord", an original artwork realized by Egon Schiele in 1917. The portfolio, that includ...
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