Viennese Genius Egon Schiele

Vienna, Austria-Hungary, early 20th century. Europe on the eve of World War I. Egon Schiele is a boy with peculiarities and an artist too extravagant for his time. His paintings are dark, provocative, and excessively candid, shamelessly exposing both bodies and souls. At that time, it was hard to imagine that one day he would be called a brilliant expressionist.
Schiele's life is woven from contradictions. He struggles to enroll in the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts and leaves it in scandal. At times he lives on pennies, selling his erotic drawings in alleyways, while at other times he exhibits in the largest galleries of Europe. Today he changes models and lovers like gloves, and tomorrow suddenly decides to become a respectable family man and father. But in 1918, the ruthless Spanish flu reached Vienna. Egon Schiele died when he was only 28 years old.
For the first time in Russian— a biographical novel about Schiele, his short life, and complex creative path. A protégé and close friend of the great Gustav Klimt, he became one of the most discussed and intriguing figures in the history of 20th-century art.