Self-Portrait
1912
Medium
watercolor over graphite on light brown wove japan paper; partial sketch of face in graphite on verso
Dimensions
overall: 34.9 x 25.4 cm (13 3/4 x 10 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Hildegard Bachert in memory of Otto Kallir
Accession Number
1997.127.1
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, ...