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SCHIELE, Egon: Nude Self-Portrait, Grimacing

🖼 Nude Self-Portrait, Grimacing, 1910
Albertina
Vienna, Austria

Twisted contortion and raw self-examination dominate this graphite study, capturing a grotesque grimace and angular body rendered with unflinching immediacy. Schiele's psychological intensity and willingness to depict himself as vulnerable and distorted prefigured Expressionism's emotional brutality and challenged early-20th-century beauty standards.

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E. H. Gombrich
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