Egon Schiele

Egon SCHIELE was born on June 12, 1890 in Tulln. From 1906 to 1909 he stud­ied at the Acad­e­my of Fine Arts in Vien­na. In 1909 he left the acad­e­my and found­ed the Wiener Neukun­st­gruppe with fel­low artists. Dur­ing this time he also met Gus­tav Klimt, his future spon­sor. This helps him to take part in the Inter­na­tion­al Vien­na Art Show in 1909. Par­tic­i­pa­tion in the art show sup­ports Schiele’s fur­ther artis­tic career. In 1911 the artist moved to Kru­mau. In the same year his first solo exhi­bi­tion takes place in the Miethke gallery in Vien­na. In the fol­low­ing years Schiele took part in numer­ous exhi­bi­tions at home and abroad, includ­ing in Vien­na, Munich, Rome, Brus­sels and Paris. In 1912 he set up a stu­dio in Vien­na. In 1915 he mar­ried Edith Harm. In the same year Schiele was called up for mil­i­tary ser­vice. In 1916 the Berlin mag­a­zine “Die Aktion” pub­lished an Egon Schiele book­let (No. 35/36). After his basic mil­i­tary train­ing, Schiele returned to Vien­na as a mil­i­tary admin­is­tra­tive clerk (clerk) and was com­mis­sioned in 1917 with Albert Paris Güter­sloh to orga­nize the war exhi­bi­tion in the Prater. After only ten years in the art world, the Vien­na Seces­sion is ded­i­cat­ing an exhi­bi­tion to the artist in which around 50 of his works will be shown. Short­ly after­wards, Egon Schiele fell ill with the Span­ish flu and died on Octo­ber 21, 1918 in Vien­na. Schiele, an impor­tant rep­re­sen­ta­tive of Aus­tri­an Expres­sion­ism, is con­sid­ered a pio­neer for mod­ernism with his exten­sive oeu­vre, espe­cial­ly fig­u­ra­tive works, por­traits and self-portraits.
1969 – first exhi­bi­tion in the gallery Welz.