Who among you knows the story of Egon Schiele, the Austrian painter born on June 12, 1890 near Vienna and died on October 31, 1918 in the same city, the son of a station master and a mother from a peasant family? To discover the story of this eccentric artist, just consult the columns of FIRST Art. Here is an excerpt from the article written by Marika Lion:
"Egon Schiele he was an artist with an unconventional and narcissistic personality. Most of his works are characterized by a dark and visionary aspect, obsessively focused on mainly erotic themes. He favored young models without shame and preferably with a thin body, typical of teenagers. His first model was his sister Gerti (Gertrude). In a portrait of 1909 she depicts her inspired by the works of Klimt. The second model, Wally Neuzil, of whom she made several erotic drawings. One of the most important paintings, which manifests the love relationship between the two lovers, is entitled "Death and a girl". It is a tragic embrace in which the painter highlighted the passionate farewell between the two lovers".
His, explains Marika Lion, was a sentimental passion almost always brief and morbidly led to the exasperation that he himself led in the end to escape an intimate and overbearing violence that he would not have been able to control.
