In conservative, polite Vienna, in the year before the 100th anniversary of Egon Schiele’s death, the enthusiasm and genuine affection for this artist is at an all-time high. A new exhibition ...
An Egon Schiele drawing that was stolen by the Nazis from Austrian Jewish cabaret performer Fritz Grünbaum realized over £3.3 million ($4.2 million) at Christie’s London this week, soaring past ...
There are still vintage treasures to be found at your local thrift store, apparently. And, in at least one case, that treasure could be worth $100,000 or more. Last year, a man stumbled across a ...
PARIS — Apparent at the Foundation Louis Vuitton’s exhibition of mostly delicately colored drawings by Egon Schiele is his virtuosity as a draftsman. Particularly in the execution of his expressive ...
Egon Schiele, “Eduard Kosmack” (1910), black chalk, watercolor, and opaque white, Albertina (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic) VIENNA — The Albertina’s astounding retrospective of Egon ...
He was a real bad boy — revered by some, reviled by others — who worked hard, died young and rocked the staid world of Viennese painting. He was Egon Schiele (1890-1918), and New York’s never seen so ...
For the first time since 1960, the Carnegie Museum of Art will be absent its million-dollar Egon Schiele drawing, “Portrait of a Man.” The museum Wednesday renounced its claim to the 1917 artwork, ...
Egon Schiele is a member of the club of great artists who died prematurely, incompletely creating and sharing their beauty and wisdom: Raphael, age 37; Mozart, 35; Shelley, 29; and, Keats, 25, to name ...
During World War II, countless works of art were stolen by the Nazis - many of them never returned. This investigation uses the case of Egon Schiele to expose how looted art disappeared into private ...
This shrewd and diverting French drama takes as its inspiration the rediscovery of a long-lost Egon Schiele masterwork. By Manohla Dargis A New York judge found that the Art Institute of Chicago’s ...