Egon Schiele: Last Years 1914-1918

A new study of the lesserknown later works of Egon Schiele and the effects of political upheaval on his artistic output.

The body of work by the eccentric artist Egon Schiele (1890-1918), created over a period of just ten years, is known above all through his major paintings and those drawings from between 1910 and around 1913/14 in which he processed his own emotional states and expressed the inner turmoil of an entire generation in his depictions of the human figure. His later works after 1914, which