Born near Vienna in 1890, Schiele developed a highly individual style. With his signature painting style, presenting portraits of distorted, strangely angled sitters, defying conventional beauty, Egon Schiele became one of the leading painters of…

Points covered An outline of key works and their particular significance within the narratives of German Expressionism. A list of public collections internationally that have closely related works. A list of private collections internationally that…

The image of the woman applying her make-up is a powerful one. Painted in Berlin at the height of the Weimar years, it gives an insight into the changing fortunes of young metropolitan working women who, in the mid-1920s were achieving greater…