Egon Schiele: Last Years: 1914–1918

Little-known late works from a painter whose art came to epitomize Viennese modernism

Published with Leopold Museum, Vienna.

Austrian artist Egon Schiele is known above all through his expressionist paintings and drawings, primarily made between 1910 and 1913/14, in which he expressed the inner turmoil of an entire generation in his depictions of the human figure. His later works following 1914, which differ markedly from his earlier ones, are less well known.
This volume chronicles the final four years of output from Egon Schiele, highlighting these later, less well-known works, in which he processed private and historical events from 1914 onward, in a style differing distinctly from his earlier works. His lines became more measured, flowing and organic, and his figures filled out and more realistic.