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SCHIELE, Egon: Kümmernis (Sorrow)

🖼 Kümmernis (Sorrow), 1914
Drypoint (sheet)
521 × 362 cm
Boston, USA

Gaunt and contorted, a bearded figure writhes against a murky background, rendered in Schiele's characteristic angular, expressive lines. This 1914 work epitomizes Austrian Expressionism's psychological intensity, capturing raw human suffering through distorted form and emotional rawness.

The story of art
The story of art
E. H. Gombrich
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