Egon Schiele- Understanding Modern Art

Egon Schiele, successor to Gustave Klimt and enfant terrible of the Vienna Secession is a key figure in the history of modern art. His unusual paintings, which can range from insightfully beautiful to horrifically ugly not only redefined how we depict the human form, they also show traces of Egon's search for the new sense of self the modern era had supposedly brought with it. As the 20th century and Modern Art gets well under way with everything from Expressionism to the build up to the First World War we take a look at Schiele, his life, times, influences and techniques to get a bit closer to understanding just what was going on at the inception of Modern Art Support our work at- Footage used Tram ride through Vienna 1906- Battle of the Somme-