Before his death at 28, Egon Schiele had achieved what few artists could ever aspire to. This massive review of his drawings and watercolors shows the artist's leaps in artistic progression.
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Austrian Expressionist Egon Schiele produced a prolific body of work before his early death at the age of 28 in 1918. His oeuvre is comprised of a few hundred oil paintings and thousands of drawings and watercolors. Schiele's oils have often been reproduced and are well recognized. However, limited access to the fragile works on paper and dispersion among several collections have made for an unbalanced representation of his work as a draftsman.
This book assembles drawings and watercolors from public and private collections and reproduces work from every year of the artist's career, beginning with the juvenilia and early academic studies. The focus means that work that is rarely reproduced is represented extensively, providing a unique opportunity to study Schiele's rapid artistic development over the course of his brief 12-year career.
The book is organized chronologically and divided into year-by-year sections. Each section includes a text that discusses the major events in Schiele's life and the interrelation between the artist's drawing and developments in his oil painting. It features a previously unpublished Schiele watercolor, several works that have never been reproduced in color and more than 350 color illustrations.
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About the author
Jane Kallir is the director of the Galerie St. Etienne, New York, and is the author of numerous books on art, including a catalogue raisonné.
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