Egon Schiele
By Sandra Forty
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Sandra Forty is a graduate of London University where she studied medieval and early modern history, including a spell at the Courtauld Institute learning about Renaissance art from Professor Gombrich. Since then she has worked as a journalist in London, then as a book editor and writer. She is the author of a number of books, most on art and architecture. Sandra lives in south Devon with her husband, children and many cats.
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Egon Schiele - Sandra Forty
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EGON SCHIELE
June 12, 1890–October 31, 1918
For many art critics and modern enthusiasts, Egon Schiele is the greatest draftsman of the twentieth century. He could capture with flowing strokes and seemingly minimal effort a portrait or landscape so palpably real that artistic talent is too insufficient a phrase to convey his exceptional skill. However, the undeniable fact that a considerable share of his work is of an explicitly erotic nature has blinded many people to his remarkable ability. Unfortunately, Schiele’s full artistic flowering lasted only a little over 10 years. He was cut down at the cruelly early age of only 28, just as he was about to truly embrace his talent and take it to another level. Egon Schiele controversially explored the themes of sexuality, the erotic, and the grotesque as well as ideas about death, with a modern unsentimental eye, so much so that he is primarily known as an Austrian Expressionist artist of