In conservative, polite Vienna, in the year before the 100th anniversary of Egon Schiele’s death, the enthusiasm and genuine affection for this artist is at an all-time high. A new exhibition ...

Egon Schiele is a member of the club of great artists who died prematurely, incompletely creating and sharing their beauty and wisdom: Raphael, age 37; Mozart, 35; Shelley, 29; and, Keats, 25, to name ...

Museums around the world are gearing up to celebrate the centenary of the death of Egon Schiele (1890–1918). But in light of the art world’s ongoing reckoning with the #metoo movement, curators are ...

Franz Friedrich "Fritz" Grünbaum was an Austrian-Jewish songwriter who openly mocked Hitler in his cabaret performances. He also had a fine collection of 450 artworks that included 81 paintings by ...

The right work of art, encountered at the right moment, can cast a kind of magic spell. I can remember, with a vividness that makes my stomach clench, exactly where I was when I first saw an artwork ...

There’s a new Egon Schiele show opening at Neue Galerie Thursday, focusing on his portraits, and it will certainly be a nice thing. Also, read along for obligatory Schiele-related references to dying ...

Egon Schiele, “Wally in Red Blouse with Raised Knees” (1913), watercolor, gouache, and pencil. Private Collection (all images courtesy the Neue Galerie) Despite its inclusion of more than 130 works on ...

Egon Schiele, "Town among Greenery (The Old City III)" (1917), oil on canvas; Neue Galerie New York (all images courtesy Neue Galerie New York unless otherwise noted) Egon Schiele could be a late ...

Egon Schiele had peculiar ideas about how to find a wife. To attract his bourgeois neighbor's daughters, the Viennese painter unfurled self-portraits from his studio windows, and invited the girls out ...

(JTA) — After a years-long battle to reacquire two paintings the Nazis stole from their ancestor before he became one of their early victims, the descendants of Austrian Jewish cabaret performer Fritz ...

Franz Friedrich “Fritz” Grünbaum was an Austrian-Jewish songwriter who openly mocked Hitler in his cabaret performances. He also had a fine collection of 450 artworks that included 81 paintings by ...