Egon Schiele
1890–1918 · Expressionism · 9 works
Egon Schiele entered Vienna’s Academy of Fine Arts at sixteen and sought out Klimt, who encouraged young artists. He left Klimt’s ornament behind for hard, tense lines and bony, twisting bodies, and drew himself again and again. After Klimt died in 1918, Schiele was seen as Vienna’s leading artist. That October he died of the Spanish flu, aged twenty-eight.
9 works · 1908–1918
1908–1912 · 3 works
Walk these 3In the museum: Vienna Secession room · 2 works
1913–1916 · 3 works
Walk these 3In the museum: Vienna Secession room · 2 works
1917–1918 · 3 works
Walk these 3In 1897 nineteen artists left Vienna’s conservative exhibiting society and formed the Secession, with Gustav Klimt as president. This room shows the city’s art from 1910 to 1918: Klimt’s late portraits and light pencil studies beside the young Egon Schiele, who drew with harder, more angular lines. Both men died in 1918, the year the Austrian empire ended.
In the museum: Vienna Secession room · 3 works
Alexej von Jawlensky
Murnau, 1910
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Poster for Die Brücke, 1907
Käthe Kollwitz
Sharpening the Scythe, 1905
