Egon Schiele

The Austrian painter Egon Schiele is now recognized as a major figure in the history of modern art and in the development of the Expressionist movement. He was only 28 when he died in 1918, yet his output was prolific and in his short life he produced a remarkable series of intense and powerful images. Although dogged by accusations of pornography throughout his career, he pursued his vocation as an artist with uncompromising intensity, giving expression to his most powerful feelings with an anguished honesty that gave his paintings the power to shock even one hundred years later.