Vienna holiday – (Egon) Schiele Take a Bow

Had to do it, sorry. Vienna is full of Egon Schiele‘s paintings. We saw a lot of them on our first day in the city at the Leopold Museum, and then in pretty much every other gallery too. The last museum we went to (the Belvedere) even had a big exhibition (now finished) about how they came to acquire his paintings, and the use of various technologies to reveal construction and earlier versions of paintings beneath the ones we can see now.

I think it’s fair to say that Schiele was pretty rock ‘n’ roll for his day (unfortunately including allegations of inappropriate behaviour with children), and was very prolific in his output (> 3000 paintings up until his death aged 28 in 1918). We saw a lot of his most famous work, and it’s brilliant and totally original in its style.