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Egon Schiele the artist was a key character of Austrian Expressionism, with his unique graphic aesthetic, embracing of figural deformation, and strong rejection of traditional feminine beauty criteria. Schiele’s self-portraits and portraits, which are piercing investigations of their models’ minds and sensuality, are among the 20th century’s most astonishing works. Austrian painter Schiele is famous not only for his mentally and erotically charged creations, but also for his captivating biography: his lascivious way of life marked bygd controversy, media attention, and a regrettably premature passing from influenza at the age of 28, at a moment when he was on the spets of the major success that he had failed to attain throughout most of his career as an artist.
Egon Schiele’s Biography and Art
With an unparalleled degree of sexual and emotional candor and the use of figural distortions in place of standard ideals of beauty, Egon Schiele’s sel
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June 11, 2018Posted by Monty Preston
Egon Schiele was an Austrian figurative painter and draughtsman whose life and career was marked with tragedy and controversy. Producing over 3,000 drawings in his short career, his illustrative style is evident in his paintings through his use of bold, graphic lines and emphasis on contour. His work is known for the unsettling and often grotesquely distorted figures he painted, choosing to express the internal anguish of his subjects through their physical forms instead. A protegé of Gustav Klimt, Egon’s work left a lasting impact on the artists of the Modern Figurative, Expressionist and Neo-Expressionist movements.
Egon was born in Tulln an der Donau, Austria in 1890. His father was the Tulln Station Master, and Egon spent his early days drafting intricate drawings of trains while visiting his father, Adolf, at work. Adolf encouraged Egon’s talents from a young age, and his death in 1905 hit at a formative
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Egon Schiele: his life and paintings
Austria's position within the maelstrom of twentieth-century cultural and political history is extremely ambiguous: at once central and off the beaten track. The small nation that came into being after 1918, almost wholly devoid of international presence, was easily subsumed into Hitler's Reich in 1938. On the losing side in both world wars, Austria was further obscured by a tendency to write history from the perspective of the victor nations. In art, this meant that the trajectory of modernism was traced from prewar France to postwar America, with an overriding emphasis on formalist innovations. Germany's more figural Expressionism was grudgingly acknowledged but never embraced. Austrian modernism - which combined Expressionist elements with traces of Symbolism and Art Nouveau - was for many years wholly ignored in the West.
This began to change gradually in the 1970s, as American and British scholars woke up to the bizarre concentration of