This book accompanies a major exhibition devoted to portraits created by Austrian artist Egon Schiele, whose figurative work exhibits intense emotion and technical brilliance. Egon Schiele (1890-1918) ...

Egon Schiele (1890-1918) is considered one of the twentieth century’s most important artists. A protégé of Gustav Klimt, Schiele is celebrated for his singular style of draftsmanship, unusual use of ...

The central question of portraiture is how to best turn its subjects inside out — how to best manipulate an inanimate medium so as to capture an animate sitter with a hidden history of invisible ...

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VIENNA (AFP) — For the first time, all portraits and self-portraits by Austrian artist Egon Schiele have been brought together in a single exhibit, opening this week at Vienna's Belvedere museum.

Austrian painter Egon Schiele’s most famous landscapes are the bodies he painted. They are spidery, elongated, twisting, and given to surprising dips and valleys. Schiele’s signatures are his hands, ...

Good artworks can rarely be deciphered easily and those that can are generally less fascinating than complex and meaningful ones. This applies to Egon Schiele’s short but highly productive artistic ...

Egon Schiele, “Eduard Kosmack” (1910), black chalk, watercolor, and opaque white, Albertina (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic) VIENNA — The Albertina’s astounding retrospective of Egon ...