Standing Nude, Facing Right

Art Historical Context

Step into the raw intensity of Egon Schiele *Standing Nude, Facing* (1918), a striking charcoal drawing on paper measuring 18¼ × 11⅝ inches, now housed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Modern and Contemporary Art department. Created just a year before Schiele's untimely death at age 28 from the Spanish flu pandemic, this work captures the Austrian Expressionist's signature style: angular, elongated figures that twist with psychological depth and emotional urgency. Schiele, a protégé of Gustav Klimt and a key figure in early 20th-century Viennese modernism, pushed boundaries with his unflin...

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, ...