“Death and the Maiden” (1915) by Egon Schiele
Egon Schiele is a member of the club of great artists who died prematurely, incompletely creating and sharing their beauty and wisdom: Raphael, age 37; Mozart, 35; Shelley, 29; and, Keats, 25, to name just a few.
Schiele was born in 1890 in a small town near Vienna. He described his great grandfather as a “jurist.” Schiele’s father, a railroad employee, was a constant sketcher. So too was Egon by age 10, and possibly even younger. He was bored at elementary school, a distraction from art, and at age 16 he entered the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, being the youngest student in his class.
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