Egon Schiele

Expressionist nudes — Vienna's tormented draftsman

Klimt's protege who surpassed him in raw intensity. His nudes — contorted, angular, unflinching in their exposure of desire and vulnerability — are the most psychologically charged figure drawings since Michelangelo. Dead at 28 in the 1918 influenza pandemic, three days after his pregnant wife.

Key works

• Self-Portrait with Physalis1912— The artist as anguished performer
  Leopold Museum, Vienna
• The Embrace1917— Tenderness and desperation intertwined
  Belvedere, Vienna

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