Egon Schiele: The Egoist

by Jean-Louis Gailleman and Jean-Louis Gaillemin

Egon Schiele (18901918) was one of the most popular and influential painters to emerge from turn-of-the-century Vienna. Before his premature death at 28, he managed to be thrown in prison on a morals charge and also to create a strongly erotic body of work, both deeply expressive drawings and sublimely beautiful paintings. This enfant terrible of pre-WWI Vienna worked in the shadows of Klimt and Freud, but he found his own voice, and his own nude...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810992612
• ISBN13: 9780810992610
• Release Date: December 2006
• Publisher: ABRAMS
• Length: 159 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.1" x 7.0"
• Age Range: 13 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 8 to Postsecondary