Egon Leo Adolf Schiele

Egon Leo Adolf Schiele, Austrian expressionist, ( 1890-1918). His art is full of erotism even more than Gustav Klimt's works are. Schiele made eroticism one of his major themes and was briefly imprisoned for obscenity in 1912.



His treatment of the nude figure suggests a lonely, tormented spirit haunted rather than fulfilled by sexuality. At first strongly influenced by Klimt, whom he met in 1907, Schiele soon achieved an independent anticlassical style wherein his jagged lines arose more from psychological and spiritual feeling than from aesthetic considerations.