Schiele’s life was as short as his work was intense. He was born in Lower Austria in 1890 to a stationmaster of the state railway, who would die of syphilis when Egon was 14. By 1906 he was the ...

Egon Schiele, “Portrait of Herbert Reiner (Reiner Boy)” (1910), oil on canvas, 101 × 101.5 cm (© Belvedere, Vienna, all images courtesy the Belvedere Museum unless otherwise noted) ...

Egon Schiele’s “Self Portrait (1910)” and “Standing Girl in White Petticoat (1911)” have gaps in their history of ownership during the Nazi period, between 1933 and 1945, experts say.

Egon Schiele Seen From Many Angles The performance artist John Kelly channels Egon Schiele in his reprise of “Pass the Blutwurst, Bitte,” at La MaMa. By Ben Brantley Dec. 12, 2010 Advertisement ...

Egon Schiele, born in 1890, was a pioneering Austrian expressionist painter known for his raw and evocative depictions of the human form. Often exploring themes of sexuality and introspection, his ...

Fritz Grünbaum, left, was a Viennese Jewish cabaret performer with a vast Egon Schiele collection, including “Portrait of a Boy,” a preparatory study for the 1910 oil portrait of the son of ...

It is without peer. The ground may have been well set for a precocious and anxious talent, though few could predict the ultimate manner in which Schiele employed his own uncompromising method with ...

Egon Schiele was born in Tulln, in June 1890. His father, Adolf, was a stationmaster who raised his son and two daughters beside the railway tracks, so the artist’s earliest portraits were all ...

He also had a fine collection of 450 artworks that included 81 paintings by expressionist master Egon Schiele. But his art collection was looted by Nazi agents in 1938 and Grünbaum sent to Dachau ...

“Egon Schiele: Portraits,” at the Neue Galerie, unspools the striking evolution of this Expressionist, who would become one of the 20th century’s most popular artists.