Artist: Egon Schiele
Date: 1915
Size: 48 x 32 cm
Museum: Museum of Fine Arts (Budapest, Hungary)
Technique: Drawing
The artistic career of Egon Schiele, the outstanding representative of Austrian Expressionism, was unfortunately limited to merely ten years. At the outset, it was the Viennese Secession, particularly the decorative style of Gustav Klimt, that influenced him, and about 1910 he found his own unmistakable, original formal language, which proved to be perfectly suited to the expression of the deepest secrets of the human soul and the revelation of the realm of instinct. His compositions reached Budapest relatively early, featuring already in group shows at the M?vészház (House of Artists) in 1912 and 1913. In October 1915, Galerie Arnot in Vienna sent a dozen drawings to the Museum of Fine Arts Budapest, accompanied by a proposal for purchase, which included, among others, the works of Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele and Oskar Kokoschka. Perhaps it can be explained by the circumstances of wartime that the museum purchased only one work in all: eighty crowns were paid for the masterpiece completed just a few months prior by Schiele, who had already made a name for himself, though he was just twenty-five. This was TwoWomen Embracing, acquired as the first sheet by the artist for the Collection of Prints and Drawings, made in 1915 when Schiele married Edith Harms, from a well-off bourgeois family. He hoped for a more consolidated life, but the June wedding was overshadowed by the artist
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