Egon Schiele Paintings
Defiantly iconoclastic in life and art, Egon Schiele is esteemed for his masterful draftsmanship and precocious insight into the human condition.
Part of the first wave of Austrian modernism, Schiele was swept away by the Viennese fascination with the tension between Life and Death (known in the works of Freud and his later interpreters as Eros and Thanatos). Life, identified with attraction, love, sexuality, and reproduction, and Death, represented by distortion, disease, repulsion, and hysteria, often appeared in the same composition, thereby suggesting the frightening life cycle of the human mind and body.
Young throughout his career, Schiele universalized his childhood traumas, thriving libido, insecurities, fears, and longings. His contorted line, jarring contrasts, and flat areas of color, demonstrate an early alliance with Expressionist philosophy and artists who were relentlessly frustrated by conventionality in all its forms.
Schiele’s work embodied man’s disorientation and confusion in a seemingly absurd world, a world plagued by disease and war. It continues to be astonishingly relevant today, not just because it helped define modernism but also because it revealed the dark and immutable aspects of the human condition. As Schiele said, “Art is primordially eternal.”
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(Biography provided by Galerie Fledermaus)
20th Century Egon Schiele Paintings
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1990s American Other Egon Schiele Paintings
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20th Century Egon Schiele Paintings
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19th Century American Baroque Antique Egon Schiele Paintings
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1920s American Vintage Egon Schiele Paintings
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20th Century Austrian Art Deco Egon Schiele Paintings
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Early 1900s Unknown Antique Egon Schiele Paintings
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1940s North American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Egon Schiele Paintings
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Mid-20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Egon Schiele Paintings
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1920s French Art Deco Vintage Egon Schiele Paintings
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Late 20th Century European Biedermeier Egon Schiele Paintings
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18th Century Edo Antique Egon Schiele Paintings
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1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Egon Schiele Paintings
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