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SCHIELE, Egon: Self-Portrait

🖼 Self-Portrait, 1912
Watercolour over graphite on light brown wove japan paper
349 × 254 cm
Washington, United States

Skeletal limbs contort against stark white, rendered in nervous brushwork and acidic color. Schiele's raw self-examination pioneered Expressionist intensity, exposing psychological anguish through distorted anatomy that challenged beauty conventions and influenced modern self-portraiture fundamentally.

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