The Family.

[NNadir]

Egon Schiele, Austrian (1890-1918)

1918

At the Belvedere, Vienna Austria, Höhepunkte der Österreichischen Gemäldegalerie

[Ptah]

1. Thanks again for showing me a painting I had not seen before.

:thumbsup:

I've enjoyed so many of them.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. My dear NNadir...

Oh, wow.

I don't know this painter, nor this painting, but it's really powerful.

Perhaps it was painted during WWI...Actually, it had to have been.

They look battle-scarred.

Even the child.

Thank you so much!

[NNadir]

3. Schiele died the year he painted this, three days after his wife.

He was 28 years old.

He, and she, died in the Spanish flu epidemic.

People say that this painting represents his hopes and dreams.

It was a great loss for art.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

4. That is dreadful.

So young. So much promise...

Thanks for telling me. I mean that...

It's really good to know the history, even when it's unhappy.

[NNadir]

5. Another interesting thing about Schiele is that he was arrested and served a short jail sentance.

It seems that the Austrian government, which was then engaged in an exercise of killing vast numbers of people, found his works "obscene."

Strange but true.

On the other hand, Scheile like everyone else his age was drafted into the Austrian army. His officers recognized his prodigious talent, and gave him a relatively safe job guarding Russian prisoners of war.