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Egon
Schiele
1890-1918
Austrian Expressionist
Artist
Artistically and
stylistically influenced
by the following
painters - Gustav
Klimt,
Edvard Munch,
Henri de
Toulouse-Lautrec and
Vincent van Gogh
Education -
Akademie der Bildenden
Künste, Vienna , Austria
Cause of Death -
He died, along with his
wife and unborn child,
in the Great flu
pandemic of 1918. He was
just 28 years old.
Mediums - oil on canvas,
watercolor, charcoal,
graphite, pastel
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Artist Quotes
I do not deny that I have made drawings and watercolors
of an erotic nature. But they are always works of art. Are there no
artists who have done erotic pictures? -- Egon Schiele
"I must see new things and investigate them. I want to
taste dark water and see crackling trees and wild winds." -- Egon
Schiele
"To restrict the artist is a crime. It is to murder germinating life."
-- Egon Schiele
"I am so rich that I must give myself away." -- Egon Schiele
"Everything is dead while it lives." -- Egon Schiele
"Art cannot be modern. Art is primordially eternal" -- Egon Schiele
"At present, I am mainly observing the physical motion of mountains,
water, trees and flowers. -- Egon Schiele
I don't know who is able to understand why I visit those places where my
father used to be and where I can feel the pain.-- Egon Schiele
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