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SCHIELE, Egon: Self-Portrait with Chinese Lantern Plant

🖼 Self-Portrait with Chinese Lantern Plant, 1912
Oil and gouache on wood
32 × 40 cm
Vienna, Austria

Skeletal fingers grip an orange physalis plant against a murky ground, the artist's gaunt face rendered in acidic greens and browns. Schiele's raw self-examination exemplifies Austrian Expressionism's psychological intensity and his obsession with depicting bodily vulnerability and spiritual alienation.

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