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See how the body is a single line from shoulder to shoulder, while the face, the bow tie and the clasped hands are drawn closely.
Schiele drew Dr. Ernst Wagner in black crayon in 1918 and added the initials EW beside him; a later hand wrote on the back, in German, that it is a portrait study of him. That March Schiele showed 19 paintings and 29 drawings in the main hall of the Secession, his first real success. He died that October.
black crayon on wove paper · overall: 47.2 x 29.9 cm · National Gallery of Art · Expressionism
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Details and source
- Museum title
- Dr. Ernst Wagner
- Artist
- Egon Schiele Austrian, 1890 - 1918
- Date
- 1918
- Medium
- black crayon on wove paper
- Dimensions
- overall: 47.2 x 29.9 cm (18 9/16 x 11 3/4 in.)
- Credit line
- Julius S. Held Collection, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- National Gallery of Art
Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.