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Egon Schiele

Egon Leo Adolf Ludwig Schiele was an Austrian Expressionist painter. His work is noted for its intensity and its raw sexuality, and for the many self-portraits the artist produced, including nude self-portraits. The twisted body shapes and the expressive line that characterise Schiele's paintings and drawings mark the artist as an early exponent of Expressionism. Gustav Klimt, a figurative painter…

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culture · Austrian painter (1890–1918) · painter · printmaker · draftsperson · visual artist · lithographer · photographer · graphic artist · architect · sculptor · also Egon Schiele, Schiele, schiele egon, e. schiele, Egon Leo Adolf Ludwig Schiele

Born 12 June 1890 · Died 31 October 1918 · Q44032

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I intend to get married, advantageously. Not to Wally.
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2025· 1 entry

Jan 7, 2025Documented record69% confidence

Hyperallergic: Egon Schiele’s Landscapes Tell a Winter’s Tale

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2024· 2 entries

Dec 7, 2024Documented record75% confidence

The Washington Post: Egon Schiele died young. His landscapes are forever old.

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Jan 19, 2024Documented record69% confidence

The Art Newspaper: Two more Egon Schiele works restituted to heirs of Holocaust victim will head to auction

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2023· 1 entry

Sep 21, 2023Documented record76% confidence

NPR: 7 artworks by Egon Schiele are returned to heirs of the owner killed by Nazis

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2022· 1 entry

Nov 17, 2022Documented record69% confidence

Forbes: Works By Egon Schiele Restituted To The Heirs Of Fritz Grünbaum To Be Auctioned In New York City

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2018· 1 entry

Jun 16, 2018Documented record69% confidence

Hyperallergic: Egon Schiele’s God of Desire

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2017· 1 entry

Feb 27, 2017Documented record69% confidence

Artnet: How Egon Schiele Went From Radical Punk to Respected Artist

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2016· 1 entry

2016Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

Another biographical film was released: Egon Schiele: Death and the Maiden (Egon Schiele: Tod und Mädchen)

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2015· 1 entry

Jun 11, 2015Documented record69% confidence

Artnet: 8 Things that Will Change the Way You Think About Egon Schiele

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2013· 1 entry

2013Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

The museum sold three drawings by Schiele for £14 million at Sotheby's London in order to settle the restitution claim over its 1914 Schiele painting Houses by the Sea

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2006· 1 entry

2006Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

The Expressionist work was sold at auction for 17

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1980· 1 entry

1980Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

The Arts Council of Great Britain produced a documentary film, Schiele in Prison, which looked at the circumstances of Schiele's imprisonment and the veracity of his diary

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1978· 1 entry

1978Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

Director Clive Donner cast Bowie and Charlotte Rampling in a film to be called Wally, centred around Schiele and his relationship with his lover Wally Neuzil; however, due to insufficient funding, the project never mater

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1954· 1 entry

1954Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

And became part of the collection of the Leopold Museum when it was established by the Austrian government, purchasing more than 5,000 pieces that Leopold had owned

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1953· 1 entry

1953Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

The City of Linz acquired it for the Neue Galerie in Linz

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1948· 1 entry

1948Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

But her heirs were not able to recover the Schiele until 2002

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1918· 1 entry

Oct 31, 1918Documented record86% confidence

Died 1918-10-31.

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1915· 2 entries

Jan 1, 1915Documented record76% confidence

“I intend to get married, advantageously. Not to Wally.”

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1915Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

Schiele chose to marry the more socially acceptable Edith, but had apparently expected to continue his relationship with Wally

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1914· 1 entry

1914Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

Schiele glimpsed the sisters Edith and Adéle Harms, who lived with their parents across the street from his studio in the Viennese district of Hietzing, 101 Hietzinger Hauptstraße

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1913· 1 entry

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The Galerie Hans Goltz, Munich, mounted Schiele's first solo show

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1911· 1 entry

1911Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

At the age of twenty-one, Schiele met the seventeen-year-old Wally Neuzil, who lived with him in Vienna and served as a model for some of his most striking paintings

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1910· 2 entries

1910Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

Schiele began experimenting with nudes, and within a year, a definitive style featuring emaciated, sickly-coloured figures, often with strong sexual overtones, began to emerge

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1910Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

And Budapest in 1912; the Sonderbund, Cologne, in 1912; and several Secessionist shows in Munich, beginning in 1911

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1909· 1 entry

1909Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

After completing his third year, and founded the Neukunstgruppe ("New Art Group") with other dissatisfied students

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1908· 1 entry

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Schiele had his first exhibition, in Klosterneuburg

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1907· 1 entry

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Schiele sought out Gustav Klimt, who generously mentored younger artists

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1906· 1 entry

1906Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

Schiele applied to the Kunstgewerbeschule (School of Arts and Crafts) in Vienna, where Gustav Klimt had once studied

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1890· 1 entry

Jun 12, 1890Documented record86% confidence

Born 1890-06-12.

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1851· 1 entry

1851Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

In Vienna to Karl Ludwig Schiele, a German from Ballenstedt and Aloisia Schimak; Egon's mother Marie (née Soukup) was born in 1861 in Český Krumlov (Krumau) to Franz Soukup, a Czech father from Mirkovice, and Aloisia Pof

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