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SCHIELE, Egon: Four trees

Skeletal trees twist and writhe against an anxious sky, their gnarled trunks rendered in urgent, expressionistic strokes. Schiele's 1917 work captures psychological torment through nature, reflecting Austria's WWI devastation and modernist rejection of serene Romanticism.

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