Egon Schiele

Egon Schiele
Born	Egon Schiele (1890-06-12)12 June 1890 Tulln
Died	31 October 1918(1918-10-31) (aged 28) Vienna
Nationality	Austrian
Education	Akademie der Bildenden Künste
Known for	Painting
Notable work	Porträt des Albert Paris von Gütersloh, 1918; Self-portrait, 1912
Movement	Expressionism

Egon Schiele (12 June 1890 – 31 October 1918) (pronounced [ˈʃiːlə], or SHEE-luh) was a painter from Austria. Some people see his work as expressionist, but also in the art nouveau movement. With Gustav Klimt and Oskar Kokoschka, he was among the most important artists of Wiener Moderne. The most important collection of Schiele's work is in the Leopold Museum in Vienna.

Schiele died of influenza, at only 28 years old of the pandemic known as Spanish flu, which killed between 20 and 100 million people.

Images

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  Woman with green stockings (Frau mit den grünen Stümpfen), 1908
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  Self-portrait clothed in black (Selbstporträt mit dem schwarzen Gewand),1910
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  Self-portrait (Selbstportät), 1912
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  Woman, lying down (Liegende Frau), 1917
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  Four trees (Vier Bäume), 1917
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  Stein an der Donau II, 1913
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  The Bridge (Die Brücke), 1913
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  Old Mill (Alte Mühle), 1916
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  Self-portrait (Selbstportät)
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  Portrait Eduard Kosmack, 1910