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SCHIELE, Egon: Agony (The Death Struggle)

🖼 Agony (The Death Struggle), 1912
Oil on canvas
70 × 80 cm
Munich, Germany

Contorted limbs and ashen flesh convulse across the canvas in raw charcoal and oil, capturing human suffering without restraint. Schiele's visceral expressionism redefined how modern art could depict psychological anguish and physical decay, abandoning beauty for unflinching emotional truth.

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E. H. Gombrich
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