Egon Schiele

Egon Schiele (1890-1918) was an Austrian Expressionist from Tulln near Vienna. He studied at the Vienna Academy and was supported by Gustav Klimt. With angular, nervous lines he drew and painted self-portraits, nudes and portraits that shocked his contemporaries; in 1912 he was held for several weeks on charges of exhibiting indecent drawings. He left hundreds of paintings and thousands of drawings and watercolours. In October 1918 he died of the Spanish flu, three days after his pregnant wife Edith. The Leopold Museum in Vienna has the largest collection.