Egon Schiele

Egon Schiele was an Austrian artist who lived between 1890 and 1918. During World War I he was drafted, but was still allowed to continue his work even with restricted time. He died age 28 of the Spanish Flue. Schiele painted figures, often nudes, and painted them in sickly colors. He mostly focused on nudes of women, and much of his work has strong sexual overtones. I chose mostly his self portraits however because those are the ones I personally like best. Before being deployed his wife was his main model, but during the war his models switched more towards male.