Egon Schiele
Egon Schiele, born in 1890 in Tulln near Vienna, started his studies at the Vienna Academy of Plastic Arts at the age of 16. Egon Schiele was an Expressionist oil painting artist, draftsman, and printmaker noted for the eroticism of his figurative works. He was lastingly influenced by Gustav Klimt, whom he met in 1907. With the portrayal of ugly and degenerate acts, he exposed Man’s tragic fate and violent mental anguish. Because of his emphatically erotic portrayal of his models, he was accused of being pornographic and committed to prison for 24 days in 1912. Egon Schiele died at the age of 28 from Spanish influenza in 1918.
