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SCHIELE, Egon: Self-Seer II (Death and Man)

🖼 Self-Seer II (Death and Man), 1911
Oil on canvas
80.3 × 80 cm
Vienna, Austria

Twisted bodies writhe in shadow—skeletal fingers reach through darkness as death embraces a contorted self-portrait. Schiele's expressionist masterpiece captures existential terror and psychological anguish, rejecting beauty for raw emotional truth and redefining early modernist portraiture.

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