Egon Schiele (12 June 1890 – 31 October 1918) was an Austrian painter trained under Gustav Klimt, a Viennese Secessionist and early 20th-century expressionist painter.
In the year 1890, Egon was born into a middle-class family.
His father worked as a station master for the Austrian National Train and died of syphilis when he was 15; his uncle Leopold Czihaczec became his guardian. Leopold was disappointed by Egon's aversion to higher study, but he recognized Egon's ability for painting.
Egon applied to the Vienna Technical School of Arts in 1906, where he studied for less than a year before being suggested by many of the school's faculty members to study oil painting and drawing at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts. Egon, being the youngest student at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts at the time (16 years old), blatantly demonstrated his artistic aptitude.
Egon was born in Tulln, Austria, a tiny town near Vienna on the Danube River. It's a lovely spot, with cascading vines, domed cathedrals, and Baroque monasteries dotting the landscape, as well as the Danube's gentle flow. Perhaps Egon used the paintings to express his grief about his father's premature death. When Egon's father died, he was just 14 years old, and his loss was devastating. "I know no one can understand why I keep seeking for areas where my father went, where I purposefully spent my unhappy time," then he wrote to his brother-in-law and friend Anton Peschka in 1913. These feelings, more or less entwined, are recollections. Was it the artist's purpose to deviate from the established method of painting and therefore pave the way for a new trailblazing path? In any event, the avant-garde painter disregarded the Makart era's pretentious historical paintings.
Egon was often inspired by a series of closely spaced buildings - curving road trains, rooftop vistas and riverfront scenes along with river towns, such as the Danube. Autumn trees, flooded Orne Forest, and verdant mountains. Because he doesn't engage humans in his work, the paintings have a lonely, even morbid feel to people. Landscapes are an extension of Egon's work; whether to depict landscapes or portraits is crucial.
Lisa Jack, Katherine LK | 02:48 PM Thu, 02 June 2022 (PST) Los Angeles, CA Artpendix Press
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