Self-Portrait
c. 1917, cast c. 1925-1928
Medium
bronze
Dimensions
overall: 27.6 x 18.4 x 25.4 cm (10 7/8 x 7 1/4 x 10 in.)
Classification
Sculpture
Department
CSD
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Lauder, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art
Accession Number
1991.36.1
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, ...