Portrait of Arthur Roessler
Egon Schiele
1914
Medium
drypoint on wove paper
Dimensions
plate: 24 × 31.6 cm (9 7/16 × 12 7/16 in.) sheet: 31.8 × 45.2 cm (12 1/2 × 17 13/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen
Accession Number
2012.92.456
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, ...