Die Frau des Künstlers, Edith Schiele
1917
Medium
Gouache und Kreide auf Papier
Dimensions
45,5 x 29,7 cm
Classification
Zeichnung
Department
Belvedere Collection
Museum
Belvedere
Credit
Belvedere, Vienna
Accession Number
1965a
Art Historical Context
Egon Schiele’s *Die Frau des Künstlers, Edith Schiele* (1917) captures an intimate portrait of the artist’s wife, Edith Harms, whom he married in 1915. during the final years of World War I, the drawing reflects Schiele’s ongoing exploration of human emotion and personal relationships amid a time of profound social upheaval. As a leading figure of Austrian Expressionism, Schiele often infused his portraits with psychological intensity, using angular lines and expressive distortions to reveal inner states rather than mere physical likeness. Executed in gouache and chalk on paper, the work high...
About the Artist
Egon Schiele · 1890–1918
Egon Schiele (1890-1918) stands as one of the most provocative and psychologically penetrating artists of early twentieth-century European modernism. Born in Tulln an der Donau, Austria-Hungary, Schiele's brief but intensely productive life ended tragically at age twenty-eight when he and his pregnant wife Edith succumbed to the Spanish flu pandemic, mere days apart. Despite his truncated career, ...