Egon Schiele

• The body of work of the eccentric artist Egon Schiele (1890-1918), created over a period of just ten years, is best known for his large paintings and those drawings produced between 1910 and about 1913/14, in which he captured his own emotional states and expressed the inner turmoil of an entire generation through his depictions of the human figure.

• His works after 1914, which differ markedly from the earlier ones and are less well known, show more measured, fluid and organic lines, and his figures became more filled out and realistic. In retrospect, the personal and historical changes and events after 1914 - the outbreak of war, his marriage to Edith Harms (1893-1918) and the tedium of military life - clearly had a profound impact on his artistic output.

• Among other documents, Edith Schiele's almost unknown diary (1915-1918), in which she recorded her experiences, thoughts and feelings during these difficult times, is published in its entirety.

• Text in English.

Publisher: Walther König.