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Death and the Maiden is an oil on canvas painting by the Austrian painter Egon Schiele from 1915. It is exhibited in the Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, in Vienna. Schiele initially named the large picture measuring 150 by 180 centimeters as Man and Girl and also Entwined People.
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Self-portrait, 1906 (aged 16) Schiele was born in 1890 in Tulln, Lower Austria.His father, Adolf Schiele, the station master of the Tulln station in the Austrian State Railways, was born in 1851 in Vienna to Karl Ludwig Schiele, a German from Ballenstedt and Aloisia Schimak; Egon Schiele's mother Marie, née Soukup, was born in 1861 in Český Krumlov (Krumau) to Franz Soukup, a Czech father ...
Death and the Maiden (Der Tod und das Mädchen in German) was a common motif in Renaissance art, especially in German painting and printmaking. The usual form shows just two figures, with a young woman being seized by a personification of Death , often shown as a skeleton.
The short life of Austrian Expressionist painter Egon Schiele is chronicled against a backdrop of the final years of the Habsburg Monarchy. The story begins around 1912 as Schiele (Mathieu Carriere) and his mistress and artistic muse Wally (Jane Birkin) are befriended by an obsessed teenage girl (Karina Fallenstein), who has run away to be with Schiele.
Egon Schiele is a university student living in artistic poverty in pre-WWI Vienna with his younger sister whom he cares for with funds sent from Prague by a rich uncle. . Unknown to his uncle, Egon has stopped going to university in order to dedicate himself to his drawing of fine art and his execution of related oil paint
In 1915, Schiele married Edith (née Harms). From this time until his death in 1918, Edith and her sister Adèle modeled for Schiele's works. [ 5 ] Representing his maturity as an artist during this 1915–1918 period, Schiele began implementing inflected lines and a naturalistic approach to the human figure.
Media in category "1915 paintings" The following 11 files are in this category, out of 11 total. Giorgio de Chirico, 1914-15, Le mauvais génie d’un roi (The Evil Genius of a King), oil on canvas, 61 × 50.2 cm, Museum of Modern Art, New York.jpg 2,443 × 2,981; 3.43 MB