Artist field note

Egon Schiele

The body is a raw instrument of self-knowledge.

The Family by Egon Schiele
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The Family

1918

Three bodies form an uneasy unit shadowed by the artist's imminent death.

The five in one idea

Schiele stripped the figure of polite finish and made vulnerability itself the subject of modern drawing.