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SCHIELE, Egon: Dead City III (Town on the Blue River)

🖼 Dead City III (Town on the Blue River), 1911
Oil and gouache on wood
37.1 × 29.9 cm
Vienna, Austria

Jagged rooftops and skeletal spires pierce a sickly blue sky in expressionist distortion, rendered with anxious, angular brushwork. Schiele's warped cityscape captures modernist alienation and Austrian fin-de-siècle anxiety, transforming urban landscape into psychological torment.

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