Egon Schiele (1890-1918)

Self-Portrait Standing, 1910,

Gouache, watercolor and pencil with white

highlighting, 55 x 36cm.

“At present, I am mainly observing the physical motion of mountains, water, trees and flowers. One is everywhere reminded of similar movements in the human body, of similar impulses of joy and suffering in plants.”- Egon Schiele

Schiele, Egon, Eduard Kosmack, 1910, Oil on canvas, 100 x 100cm

Looking at this painting, describe Schiele’s style in terms of space, colour, figure, form, and line.

What similarities can you see with Klimt? What differences?

Portrait of Emilie Flöge. 1902.

Schiele, Egon, Pregnant Woman and Death, 1911, Oil on canvas, 100 x 100 cm.

Self-Portrait as St. Sebastian(Poster for Arnot Gallery exhibition)1914/15Indian ink and opaque67 x 50 cm

What sort of message is Schiele trying to create here with this self-portrait as the martyr St. Sebastian? What makes you think this?

Self-Portraits

Consider the way that Schiele has created a self-portrait. In what ways might you distinguish between the way Schiele has done a self-portraits compared to someone like Beckmann?

Paintings of Women

Artist's wife, 1917

Female Nude, 1910

Female Nude, 1914

Freundschaft, 1913

Consider the way that Schiele has portrayed women. How does is seem different than the way he portrays himself? Why do you think so?

Though there are obvious similarities to Klimt in this work, in what ways is this work quite different stylistically?

Frederike Beer

Schiele, EgonSeated Couple (Egon and Edith Schiele)1915Gouache and pencil on paper52 x 41cm

Schiele, Egon, Death and the Maiden, 1915/16Oil on canvas, 150 x 180 cm

Schiele, Egon, Embrace (Lovers II),1917Oil on canvas, 100 x 170cm

Four Trees

Little Tree

In what ways do Schiele’s landcapes imbue the same sort of stylistic features as his figurative art works? Consider the quote that we started with.

Tote Stadt

With this last art works and all that you have seen of Schiele’s, in what ways does it seem that he fits into the Expressionist movement that we have been studying?