Street Cart
1914
Medium
Watercolor, gouache, and graphite on paper
Dimensions
12 1/4 x 15 3/8 in. (31.4 x 47.9 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Modern and Contemporary Art
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Scofield Thayer, 1982
Accession Number
1984.433.303
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Art Historical Context
Egon Schiele's *Street Cart* (1914) captures the bustling energy of early 20th-century urban life through the artist's signature Expressionist lens. A leading figure in Vienna's avant-garde scene alongside Gustav Klimt, Schiele renowned for his raw, psychologically charged drawings that distorted forms to convey emotion. Created on the eve of World War, this work reflects a moment of poised tension in European modernity, where everyday scenes like market carts and umbrellas become vehicles for intense observation. Rendered in watercolor, gouache, and graphite on paper (12 1/4 x 15 3/8 in.), t...
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, ...