Egon Schiele
Egon Schiele was an Austrian painter, a protégé of Gustav Klimt, and a major figurative painter of the early 20th century. Schiele's body of work is noted for the intensity and the large number of self-portraits he produced. The twisted body shapes that characterize Schiele's paintings and drawings make the artist a notable exponent of Expressionism. The most important collection of Schiele's work is housed in the Leopold Museum, Vienna.
“Bodies have their own light which they consume to live: they burn, they are not lit from the outside.”
Egon Schiele
“I must see new things and investigate them. I want to taste dark water and see crackling trees and wild winds.”
Egon Schiele
“At present, I am mainly observing the physical motion of mountains, water, trees and flowers. One is everywhere reminded of similar movements in the human body, of similar impulses of joy and suffering in plants...”
Egon Schiele
“Art cannot be modern. Art is primordially eternal.”
Egon Schiele