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SCHIELE, Egon: Crescent of Houses II (Island Town)

🖼 Crescent of Houses II (Island Town), 1915
Oil on canvas
111 × 141 cm
Vienna, Austria

Jagged, angular houses cluster in a crescent arc, rendered in stark lines and sickly greens beneath a turbulent sky. Schiele captures urban anxiety through Expressionist distortion, transforming a mundane landscape into psychological unease that reflects early-twentieth-century alienation.

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