"Egon Schiele was born in 1890. He studied at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts (1907-09). Schiele was strongly influenced by the Jugendstil movement, the German Art Nouveau. He attended the Academy of Wien where he then earned the admiration of Gustav Klimt. He met Gustav Klimt, who was the leader of the Vienna Sezession group. The linearity and subtlety of Schiele's work owe much to Klimt
...see more »'s decorative elegance. Schiele, however, emphasized expression over decoration. Klimt introduced him to the collectors of the time and he obtained his first commissions. In 1909 Schiele helped found the Neukunstgruppe (New Art Group) in Vienna. Starting in 1911 he exhibited throughout Europe, and a special room was devoted to his work at a 1918 Sezessionist exhibit in Vienna, shortly before his death from Spanish influenza. Important works include "The Self Seer" (1911), The Cardinal and Nun" (1912), and "Embrace" (1917). His landscapes exhibit the same febrile quality of colour and line. Egon Schiele was an Austrian Expressionist painter, draftsman, and printmaker noted for the eroticism of his figurative works. heightening the emotive power of line with a feverish tension. He focused from the beginning on the human figure. Especially in his watercolours and drawings, he utilized clean and defined lines, often with empty backgrounds. His interest and concern with the emptiness of the human condition begin to subside after his marriage to Edith Harms. Egon Schiele died in Wien in 1918. Although Schiele died at the age of 28, the Secession artist became an important figure in both art history and the art market. In the space of a few years, Schiele managed to create over 3,200 works of art. Drawings and watercolours account for almost 60% of Schiele's works that are auctioned, with many of them now fetching more than $400,000 each at auction, and his artwork's prices have continued to rise (152% between 1997 and 2006). Schiele's paintings are much harder to find at auction, with less than 50 canvasses up for sale in 20 years. Schiele's top sale in 2006 was a canvas painted on both sides from 1915, "Einzelne H?user (H?user mit Bergen) - Monk I (fragment, verso) I", which sold at auction for $20 million in November 2006. The artist also chalked up a $19.4 million sale for his "HerbstsonneI" auctioned at Christie's London. "« see less
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