Egon Schiele: Bad Boy of Art

Egon Schiele laced his drawings and paintings with fierce expressionism of sexuality or death. His art expresses the melancholy and anguish of living that murmured within him – art from the depths of his fevered soul.  

Egon Schiele combines flesh, bones, muscles and tendons in a distinctive symbolism of desire and physical abandonment. Repulsion and attraction sound the keynote of this artist’s oeuvre.

Egon Schiele died tragically at the age of 28 limiting our assessment of his art to ten years. Initially in Vienna, Schiele was viewed as a trinity of Klimt, Kokoschka and Schiele. Today he is regarded as a separate figure – a master of Austrian Expressionism.