Egon Schiele. The Complete Paintings 1909¿1918 av Tobias G. Natter

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<p>After <strong>Egon Schiele</strong> (1890-1918) freed himself from the shadow of his mentor and role model <strong>Gustav Klimt</strong>, he had just ten years to inscribe his signature style into the <strong>annals of modernity</strong> before the Spanish flu claimed his life. Being a child prodigy quite aware of his own genius and a <strong>passionate provocateur</strong>, this didn¿t prove to be too big a challenge.<br><br>His <strong>haggard, overstretched figures</strong>, <strong>drastic depiction of sexuality</strong>, and <strong>self-portraits</strong> in which he staged himself with emaciated facial expressions <strong>bordering between brilliance and madness</strong>, had none of the decorative quality of Klimt¿s hymns of love, sexuality, and yearning devotion. Instead, Schiele¿s work spoke of a <strong>brutal honesty</strong>, one that would upset and irreversibly change Viennese society.<br><br>Although his works were later defamed as ¿degenerate¿ and for a time were al