Artnet

Schiele’s Male Nudes, Long Thought to Be Self-Portraits, May Have Actually Depicted Gay Models

New scholarship has found that Egon Schiele’s male nudes from 1910, known as his “Red Men,” are not, as has long been assumed, self portraits. Instead, they most likely depict the artist’s gay friends ...
Artnet

Egon Schiele’s Death Mask Sells for Nearly 10 Times Its Estimate

A death mask of the Viennese painter Egon Schiele has sold at auction for £19,000 ($24,600), nearly 10 times its pre-sale estimate. Gustinus Ambrosi’s The Death Mask of Egon Schiele (1918) was one of ...
WBUR

Beyond Glamor And Gold, Beyond Sex And Scandal — The Beautiful Renderings Of Klimt And Schiele At The MFA

Egon Schiele's "Nude Self‑Portrait," created in 1910 with black chalk, watercolor, gouache and white heightening on brown wrapping paper. (Courtesy of Museum of Fine Arts, Boston) The early ...
ELLE

Egon Schiele's Nude Paintings Used to Be Considered 'Obscene.' Now They're on Display at the Met Breuer.

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The Art Newspaper

Two more Egon Schiele works restituted to heirs of Holocaust victim will head to auction

Two works by Egon Schiele were returned Friday (19 January) to the heirs of the Austrian Jewish cabaret performer Fritz Grünbaum, from whose art collection the works were allegedly seized by Nazi ...
Hyperallergic

Egon Schiele’s Landscapes Tell a Winter’s Tale

Egon Schiele, "Town among Greenery (The Old City III)" (1917), oil on canvas; Neue Galerie New York (all images courtesy Neue Galerie New York unless otherwise noted) Egon Schiele could be a late ...
Hyperallergic

Egon Schiele’s Quivering Line Tells All

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 ...
Washington Examiner

Schiele’s Faces

In Hermann Hesse’s short story “The Painter,” a young artist experiences the pain of having his works shunned. Because his paintings are so unpopular, the artist becomes reclusive. He decides to stop ...
Observer

Two Newly Repatriated Egon Schiele Works Have Been Consigned to Christie’s

Two more Egon Schiele drawings have been returned to the heirs of Fritz Grünbaum, the Austrian Jewish cabaret performer whose art collection was allegedly stolen by Nazi authorities. Grünbaum’s family ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency

7 Egon Schiele portraits to be returned to heirs of Jewish cabaret star murdered in the Holocaust

Efforts by Grünbaum’s heirs to reacquire the Schiele paintings has lasted more than 25 years and has been marked by legal battles due both to statutes of limitations and disputed claims. (JTA) — Seven ...
The Art Newspaper

Egon Schiele was not a sex offender

The 100th anniversary of Egon Schiele’s death has arrived just in time for the #MeToo movement. Commemorative exhibitions are taking place this year in Moscow, Boston, Vienna, Paris, London, Liverpool ...