Egon Schiele: a Look at the Life

Schiele attended elementary school at Tulln and then transferred to the Real-gymnasium in Krems. After some time, his lack of improvement there led his father to move him again to the Landes-Real-und Ober-Gymnasium in Klosterneuburg. Schiele’s childhood was overshadowed by the illness of his father, who died on New Years Day in 1905 of syphilis. Egon’s uncle and godfather became his new guardian. At his second high school, Schiele became friends with his drawing instructor, Ludwig Karl Strauch. Strauch gave Schiele private lessons; as well as, lessons with the Klosterneuburg painter Max Kahrer. Between 1905 and 1907, Schiele created over a hundred paintings, consisting mostly of landscapes. He was once again struggling in school and was forced to withdraw at an early age. In late October of 1906, Schiele took the entrance examination for the Akademie der bildenden Kuenste in Vienna. The results were success

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Wally Neuzil, one of Egon's models, became his lover and close companion. ” Schiele had his first one-person show at the Galerie Miethke, in Vienna in 1911. Their unconventional lifestyle, however, was not appreciated by the more conservative townspeople. He turned his focus to Expressionism. The last period of his creative activity was marked by a very personal artistic mastery of surfaces.

Schiele’s real breakthrough to expressionism happened around 1910.

In spite of the war, Schiele was able to pursue his artistic endeavors. He disliked more and more the old-fashion teaching methods. The Vienna Secession Show of 1918, where Schiele exhibited in the main hall and for which he had designed the poster, brought him great success. However, during these years he became acquainted with Gustav Klimt and held him in high esteem. Together they moved to Neulengbach, a suburb of Vienna, seeking a country setting and an inexpensive studio space in which to work. Depicted is the living fetus in the mother's dead body, illustrating the topics life and death, rise and fall, which occupied Schiele's mind again and again. During the two last years of his life Schiele was an acclaimed very busy portrait painter. Being all churned up inside yielded to a certain relaxation, which showed in a deliberately more obvious realism, for example in "The Mill".

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