Egon Schiele

Egon Schiele – a famous Austrian painter and graphic artist, one of the brightest representatives of Austrian Expressionism. He emerged in the creative environment of the Vienna Secession but soon rejected the allure of decorativeism in favor of a different path, which led him to a personal interpretation of Expressionism. Each year of his existence could be compared to broken strings that created a unique music. The eternal relationship between sadness and beauty seems to be the most suitable key to Schiele's work, and undoubtedly, this key is in the true Viennese spirit. For Egon Schiele, people and flowers, houses along the riverbank, and the winter dawn belong to the same aesthetic category. All of them wither, those ones and these ones, transitioning from beauty to anxiety. If fresh sunflowers and blooming gardens of Klimt resonate with the serene and dense gardens of Monet, then the same sunflowers in Schiele's execution appear even more tired than those of Van Gogh; they bend with the same despair as the fingers in the portraits of his contemporaries. Schiele left behind thousands of drawings and 300 paintings, exhibited today in the most famous museums in the world. This colorful album with numerous magnificent illustrations tells about the life and work of the great Austrian artist. The edition presents the most famous canvases of the great master.