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SCHIELE, Egon: Krumau – Crescent of Houses (The Small City V)

🖼 Krumau – Crescent of Houses (The Small City V), 1915
Oil on canvas
110 × 140 cm
Jerusalem, Israel

Jagged rooftops pierce a turbulent sky in angular, expressionist strokes, their precarious angles suggesting psychological unease. Schiele's distorted perspective transforms the Bohemian town into an emotional landscape, pioneering Austrian modernism's raw intensity and rejecting naturalistic representation.

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