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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 ...
Egon Schiele, Portrait of Wally Neuzil. The Leopold Museum has been involved in numerous controversies concerning Nazi looted art. In 1997, a New York Times profile of Leopold described him as a "too passionate" collector, whose tough tactics had led him to keep Nazi looted art, including Schiele's Portrait of Wally, which had belonged to the Jewish art dealer Lea Bondi Jaray. [2]
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Russian War Prisoner by Egon Schiele: Egon Schiele Russian War Prisoner [233] Heirs of Fritz Grünbaum [234] [235] Claim to Art Institute of Chicago. The Art Institute of Chicago refused restitution and sued the Manhattan District Attorney. [236] Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn (attributed): The Liberation of Saint Peter from Prison Drawing,
The world's largest collection of Gustav Klimt's paintings lies at the heart of the presentation of Art around 1900, on show at the Upper Belvedere. Its highlights are Klimt's paintings, The Kiss (1908) and Judith and the Head of Holofernes (1901), and masterpieces by Egon Schiele and Oskar Kokoschka. Key works of French Impressionism and the ...
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Schiele would be a major proponent of these features, "introducing the provocative concept of the novel combination of form and emotion." [ 1 ] In this vein, Schiele "studied and staged the poses of his models to the extent that ultimately he achieved a deformed and even grotesque effect", disrupting the dichotomy of beauty and ugliness. [ 1 ]
Cover of Der Blaue Reiter Almanac. January 5 (Old Style December 23, 1911) – Moscow Art Theatre production of Hamlet, designed by Edward Gordon Craig, opens.; April – Egon Schiele is arrested in Neulengbach for seducing and abducting a minor; these charges are dropped but he is imprisoned for 21 days for exhibiting erotic drawings in a place accessible to children (his studio).