Egon Schiele Prints Set of 6 Egon Scheile Paintings (8x10 Unframed) (8 x 10)

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Less surprising was her loyalty. She posed tirelessly – keeping a keen eye on his other models, and sometimes posing with them – and accompanied Schiele on his ill-fated work trips to the countryside. The artist found the city oppressive and decamped to the Bohemian town of Krumau and then Neulengbach, a village near Vienna. In both towns the couple’s unmarried status and nonconformist behavior ruffled feathers; in 1912 in Neulengbach, Schiele spent nearly a month in prison for allegedly seducing and kidnapping a minor. Neuzil delivered food and art materials as he awaited release (he was ultimately charged with displaying pornographic materials in the presence of minors). Shortly afterwards, Schiele painted Self-Portrait with Physalis and Portrait of Wally; the works, considered a pair, represent a turning point and maturation. “If you look at Schiele’s portraits until that date, there’s a lot of eroticism, but there’s little in terms of true psychological penetration,” says Vergo. “What Portrait of Wallyreally documents is Schiele waking up to the reality of another person. It’s a real portrait of a real person.” Photographers were not the only professionals involved in the representation of such subjects; artists were also employed. Drawing, as Osen did, from life, artists’ images were considered to capture something more elusive about the patient – a mood that escaped the objectifying regard of the camera, conveying the ‘truth’ of their internal suffering in ways that could, on occasion, and at their most interesting, compromise the authority of the commissioning medical institution.His stylistic experiments now progressed rapidly but the tortured, contorted figures which emerged found little appreciation in Vienna. I really wanted their names to be attached to their faces, for people to be able to look at these famous portraits that Schiele made and to know who these women were—for them not to be forgotten. Egon Schiele, Portrait of Edith (the artist’s wife) (1915). The model for the work was the artist’s wife, Edith Harms Schiele. Collection of the And not only in London. In Zürich at almost the same time, the Kunsthaus has a major Schiele exhibition, but with a fascinating twist which pairs Schiele with that leading contemporary painter of the nude, Jenny Saville RA. Further afield, Schiele’s birthplace, the small town of Tulln not far from Vienna, has a Schiele season whose focus is an exhibition of his earlier and later work. Almost incredibly, in New York, the Neue Galerie, a specialist museum of early modern Austrian and German art, also has a major Schiele show this autumn, concentrating on his portraits. I have no idea why all these shows have come together – there is no significant anniversary – but it is certainly a tribute to Schiele’s incredible productivity in his tragically brief life from 1890 to 1918. Klimt, who was born in 1862, and Schiele, born in 1890 and thus almost 30 years his junior, both played a vital role. The former was a founding member of the Vienna Secession, which united artists, sculptors and architects in a radical break with academic tradition, symbolised by Joseph Maria Olbrich’s revolutionary white building crowned with a dome of golden laurel leaves that housed the Secession’s exhibiting society. Klimt’s graceful mural, the Beethoven Frieze, designed for the 14th exhibition of the Viennese Secession in 1902 celebrating the genius of the great composer, merged Olbrich’s architecture and the inspiration of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony to give expression to the Viennese ideal of the Gesamtkunstwerk.

Unlike his master, Klimt, with whom Schiele is most generally identified, he painted a large number of self-portraits, indicating an obsession with the self comparable to Picasso. Schiele’s aesthetic affected both Expressionist contemporaries such as Oskar Kokoschka and Neo-Expressionist successors such as Julian Schnabel, Francis Bacon, and Jean-Michel Basquiat . Since Schiele’s tragic demise in 1918 at the age of 28, a cult following has galvanized around the wunderkind Austrian artist, whose avant-garde and open-minded depiction of the human body and sexuality was unprecedented in the realm of critically acclaimed art. Below, we explore the forces that inspired the power of Schiele’s oeuvre—one that still spellbinds artists and art lovers the world over today.Egon Schiele: Beginning and End is at the Egon Schiele Museum, Tulln, Austria until 26 October. Egon Schiele: Portraits is at the Neue Galerie, New York from 9 October to 19 January 2015.