Egon Schiele

was born on the 12th June, 1890 in Tulln, was an Austrian painter of the expressionism.

The work Schieles is for his intensity, and many self-portraits known which the artist created.

The Austrian expressionist artist Egon Leo Adolf Schiele, was for the biggest part of his short life at strife with art critics and society.

Even even more than Gustav Klimt, Squinting eroticism did one of his main topics and was briefly locked up even because of salaciousness in 1912. The rotated body and the expressive lines which the pictures and drawings Schieles characterise, do the artist, although still strongly to the Jugendstil movement linked, an important early representative of the expressionism.

His treatment of the naked figure shows a lonesome obsessed mind by the sexuality done, but not fullly. First strongly under the influence Klimts whom he met in 1907, achieved squinting soon an independent anti-classical style and his jagged lines originated more from the psychological and spiritual feeling, than from aesthetic consideration.

He painted several excellent portraits, like that of his father-in-law, Johann Harmss (1916), and a row of disconcerting self-portraits. Late works like " the family " (1918) reveal a new-discovered feeling of the security. Remarkably, however, also a row of the great scenery pictures which would earn a bigger fame.

In autumn, 1918 the Spanish influenza epidemic which demanded in Europe more than 20 million lives reached Vienna. His Mrs. Edith who was pregnant in the sixth month succumbed to the illness on the 28th October. Squint died only three days after his wife. He was only 28 years old. During three days between her deaths Squinting some sketches of Edith signed; these were his last works