Egon Schiele- Death and the Maiden
Going to the Neue Galerie the other day rekindled my fascination with the work of Austrian artist Egon Schiele. There’s a lot of disturbing material in some of his work as well as in his bio that is hard to overlook even as I admire the work. But 
despite that, Schiele created, to my way of thinking, one of the most provocative and distinct bodies of work in modern art– all before an all too early death from the Spanish Flu in 1917.
He was 28 years old.
I think of that and then think of looking closely at the beauty and quality of his brushwork, I can only wonder what might have come in later years. What masterpieces he might have created. But as it is, he left us a rich and varied body of work, one that constantly both satisfies and provokes.
I particularly love his landscapes and cityscapes. Their abstract qualities and coloring just draw me in immediately. I always find myself inspired after looking at his work, like there’s something pushing out from it that runs into my own need for expression.
I am showing some of my favorites here:
Redtree Times 