TASCHEN Egon Schiele. The Paintings. 40th Ed.
After Egon Schiele (1890 1918) freed himself from the shadow of his mentor and role model Gustav Klimt, he just ten years to inscribe signature style into annals of modernity before Spanish flu claimed life. Being a child prodigy quite aware of own genius a passionate provocateur, this didn't prove to be too big a challenge. His haggard, overstretched figures, extreme depiction of sexuality portraits, in which he staged with emaciated facial expressions