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SCHIELE, Egon: Dead Mother I

🖼 Dead Mother I, 1910
Oil and pencil on wood
32 × 25.7 cm
Vienna, Austria

Skeletal forms and sickly ochre tones depict a deceased woman in harsh, angular expressionist style. Schiele's raw psychological confrontation with mortality and maternal loss redefined Austrian modernism's emotional intensity.

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