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| Egon Schiele (1890-1918) | |||||||
| Austrian artist, painter and drawer of erotic images of the unseen and repressed, and challenging self-portraiture of the artist's many faces. | |||||||
| Major works | Sitting Woman with Legs Drawn Up (The Artist's Wife, 1917) | ||||||
| Related figures | Klimt | ||||||
|  | "The erotic work of art is sacred, too." "Life is a disease that leads to death." "Art can not be modern, art is primordially eternal." | ||||||
| Reviews | Egon Schiele: Eros and Passion, by Klaus Albrecht Schröder | ||||||