TVM Basement: 20th C. Pre WW-I European Art - Egon Schiele (Part 3 of 3)

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Egon Schiele

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Egon Schiele

born: Tulln on the Danube, Austria; 12 June 1890
died: Vienna, Austria; 31 October 1918 of influenza

Chronology with Pictures (Continued)

1914	24	The First World War begins. Egon meets Edith and Adele Harms, whose family live across from his studio at 114, Hietzinger Hauptstrasse. He learns etching and woodcut techniques from artist Robert Philippi. Schiele continues to display his art across Europe with critical successes in the International Secession in Rome, at the Werkbund show in Cologne, the Munich Secession exhibition, and in Brussels and Paris. On New Year's Eve a month long individual show at the Galerie Arnot in Vienna opens.
1915	25	The Kunsthaus Zürich exhibits Schiele drawings and watercolors. Egon breaks up with Wally Neuzil. On 17 June, he marries Edith Harms. He reports for military duty in Prague three days after the wedding and is stationed in Prague. His new wife goes with him. After training at Neuhaus in Bohemia, Schiele returns to Vienna in late July. The Austro/German army treats him well. He is assigned guard duties and clerical tasks near Vienna, and given permission to sleep at the Hietzing studio.

Blind Mother 1914 Sammlung Rudolf Leopold Vienna, Austria	Friederike Beer 1914	Nude with the Green Turban 1914
Suburb I 1914	Wall with Windows 1914
Edith Harms about 1914		Harms 1915
Death and Maiden 1915-1916 Österreichische Galerie Vienna, Austria	Krumau Town Crescent I 1915-1916 The Israel Museum Jerusalem, Israel	Krumau Landscape 1915-1916 Neuen Galerie der Stadt, Linz, Austria

1916	26	Egon exhibits in a Viennese show in the Berlin Secession and also with the Munich Secession, at the Galerie Goltz, and in a graphics show in Dresden. The army assigns him to "unarmed duties": from May till late August he is in the food supplies section at the officers' POW camp at Mühling in Lower Austria, where he is able to draw and is even provided with a makeshift studio. From there, Schiele makes excursions to the Wachau region. In early September he returns to Vienna. Die Aktion runs an entire issue devoted to Schiele's art.
1917	27	The German army again treats him well, he is assigned to the supply commissary in Vienna on the Mariahilfer Strasse. With other leading artists, Schiele proposes to establish a "Kunsthalle" artists' cooperative. With the art dealer Karl Grünwald, who is also an officer at the commissary, Schiele visits Tyrol in June and July. In late September he is in Munich, then in October begins duties in the Army Museum. He has work in the War Exhibition in Vienna's Kaisergarten, in a Munich Secession show, and in exhibitions of Austrian art in Amsterdam, Stockholm and Copenhagen in the autumn and winter. In October, Richard Lanyi publishes a portfolio of collotypes after Schiele drawings. In December he begins to contribute to a new Vienna periodical, Der Anbruch.

Mother with Two Children III about 1916	Russian Prisoner of War (Grigori Kaldjishuili) 1916 Art Institute Chicago, Il, US	Edith Schiele nee Harms 1918 Österreichische Galerie Vienna, Austria
Four Trees 1917 Österreichische Galerie Vienna, Austria		Houses with Drying Laundry 1917 Nathan & Marion Smooke Collection Los Angeles, CA, US
Kneeling Half-Nude bent to left 1917		Kneeling Half Nude 1917
Reclining Female Nude 1917 Moravská Galéri, Brno	Seated Woman in Violet Stockings 1917 Private Collection	Woman Sitting with Bent Knees 1917

1918

The special show at the 49th Vienna Secession exhibition in March is an artistic and financial success for Schiele, and he receives numerous new commissions. Leading Viennese personalities are showing increased interest in having their portraits painted by him; he paints a portrait of Frans Martin Haberditzl, director of the Stattsgalerie Wien (the director of the Vienna city art gallery). Gustav Klimt dies and Schiele becomes Austria's leading artist. Schiele tries to preserve Klimt's studio as a museum.

In July Schiele moves into a new Hietzing studio at 6, Wattmanngasse. At the end of the month he visits Kovácspatak in Hungary. But persistent shortages of food and fuel weaken both Edith, who is pregnant with their first child, and Egon himself.

Crouching 1918		Lying Nude 1918
Edge of Town 1918 Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum Graz, Austria	The Painter: Paris von Gütersloh 1918 Institute of Art Minneapolis, MN, US	The Family 1918

1918

In the autumn his wife Edith contracts Spanish influenza and dies on 28 October. Egon Schiele catches the same illness. He is cared for by his wife's family and dies on 31 October. Both he and his wife are buried in the churchyard of Ober St. Veit, Vienna.

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European Art before World War I Egon Schiele (Part 3 of 3)

European Art before World War I

Egon Schiele (Part 3 of 3)

Egon Schiele

Chronology with Pictures (Continued)

European Art
before World War I

Egon Schiele

(Part 3 of 3)

European Art
before World War I

Egon Schiele

(Part 3 of 3)