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SCHIELE, Egon: Portrait of Gerti Schiele

🖼 Portrait of Gerti Schiele, 1909
New York, United States

Angular, haunting brushwork renders Schiele's sister in acidic greens and browns, her gaunt face and twisted posture radiating psychological unease. This portrait exemplifies Expressionist intensity, rejecting beauty for raw emotional truth and establishing Schiele's revolutionary approach to portraiture.

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