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SCHIELE, Egon: Crescent of Houses (The small City V)

🖼 Crescent of Houses (The small City V), 1915
Jerusalem, Israel

Jagged rooftops pierce a turbulent sky in angular, expressionist strokes, their forms twisted and compressed into a dense urban crescent. Schiele's distorted perspective captures Vienna's claustrophobic modernity, transforming architecture into psychological anxiety—a hallmark of early 20th-century Austrian Expressionism.

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