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SCHIELE, Egon: Setting Sun

🖼 Setting Sun, 1913
Oil on canvas
90 × 90 cm
Vienna, Austria

Fiery orange dissolves into shadowed mountains, rendered in urgent, angular brushstrokes that convey turbulent emotion rather than naturalistic detail. Schiele's expressionist landscape captures psychological intensity over mere scenery, pioneering Austria's modernist break from romantic nature painting.

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