Victor Ritter von Bauer
1918
Medium
Öl auf Leinwand
Dimensions
140,6 × 109,8 cm
Classification
Gemälde
Department
Belvedere Collection
Museum
Belvedere
Credit
Belvedere, Vienna
Accession Number
3158
Art Historical Context
**Victor Ritter von Bauer** (1918) is a striking oil on canvas portrait by Egoniele, one of the foremost Austrian Expressionists associated with the Vienna Secession. Measuring an imposing 140.6 × 109.8 cm, this full painting captures Victor Ritter von, an Austrian military figure at a pivotal moment near the end of World War. Schiele, known for his raw, psychologically charged depictions of the human form, this work in his final year, just months before his untimely death from the Spanish flu pandemic in October 1918. Schiele's Expressionist style shines through in the painting's distorted p...
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, ...