Egon Schiele was an Austrian artist who gained recognition for his expressionist paintings, drawings, and prints. Born on June 12th, 1890 in Tulln, Austria, he attended the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts for two years and was greatly influenced by the Jugendstil movement. His artwork stands out due to its raw sexuality and intensity.
One notable aspect of Schiele’s work is his use of self-portraits. He produced many self-portraits that are now considered some of his most famous pieces. Additionally, his style was highly unique and recognizable with thin lines and exaggerated features.
Sadly, Schiele died at a young age from the Spanish flu pandemic on October 31st, 1918 when he was only 28 years old. Despite this fact, he had already made a name for himself as a powerful figure in European Art Nouveau.
Overall, Egon Schiele’s body of work has had an enduring impact on modern art to this day. His legacy helped shape future generations’ artistic vision with deep emotional expressionism being still present in modern art today.
Frequently Asked Questions
Who was Egon Schiele’s Sister?
Egon Schiele’s sister was Gertrude Schiele (1894-1981). Gertrude frequently posed for portraits for Egon.
All Egon Schiele Artwork on Artchive
Artwork Name | Year | Medium |
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House with a Bay Window in the Garden | 1907; Vienna, Austria | oil,canvas |
House with Drying Laundry | 1917; Vienna, Austria | oil,canvas |
House with Shingles | 1915; Vienna, Austria | oil,canvas |
I Love Antitheses | 1912 | watercolor,paper |
Island Town (Krumau Town Crescent) | 1915; Vienna, Austria | oil,canvas |
Kneeling Female Nude, Back View | 1915; Vienna, Austria | |
Kneeling Semi-Nude | 1911 | |
Kneeling Young Man | 1908; Vienna, Austria | chalk,paper |
Krumau | 1911; Czech Republic | oil,canvas |
Krumau on the Molde | 1912; Czech Republic | oil,panel |
Seated child | 1918; Vienna, Austria | oil,canvas |
Seated female nude with elbows propped | 1914 | |
Seated Girl Facing Front | 1911 | watercolor,paper |
Seated Girl with Bare Torso and Light Blue Skirt | 1911 | watercolor,paper |
Seated Girl with Raised Left Leg | 1911 | watercolor,paper |
Seated male Nude (Self-Portrait) | 1910; Czech Republic | oil,canvas |
Seated Male Nude, Right Hand Outstretched | 1910; Czech Republic | watercolor,paper |
Seated Woman | 1913; Vienna, Austria | watercolor,paper |
Seated Woman in Violet Stockings | 1917; Vienna, Austria | watercolor,paper |
Seated Woman with Bent Knee | 1917; Vienna, Austria | crayon,gouache,watercolor,paper |
Village by the River | 1908; Vienna, Austria | oil,canvas |
Village with Mountains | 1907; Vienna, Austria | oil,canvas |
Vorstadt | 1914; Vienna, Austria | oil,canvas |
Wally with a Red Blouse | c.1913 | |
Water Sprites | 1908; Vienna, Austria | watercolor,paper |
Willy Lidl | 1910; Czech Republic | watercolor,paper |
Winding Brook | 1906; Vienna, Austria | oil,panel |
Windows (Facade of a House) | 1914; Vienna, Austria | oil,canvas |
Winter Trees | 1912 | oil,canvas |
Woman in a Green Blouse and Muff | 1915; Vienna, Austria | watercolor,paper |
Krumau on the Molde, The Small City | c.1912; Czech Republic | oil,canvas |
Krumau Town Crescent I | 1915; Vienna, Austria | oil,canvas |
Landscape at Krumau | 1916; Vienna, Austria | oil,canvas |
Landscape in Lower Austria | 1907; Vienna, Austria | oil,cardboard |
Levitation | 1915; Vienna, Austria | oil,canvas |
Little Girl with Blond Hair in a Red Dress | 1916; Vienna, Austria | |
Little Tree (Chestnut Tree at Lake Constance) | 1912 | watercolor,paper |
Long haired nude, bent over forward, jerk view | 1918; Vienna, Austria | charcoal,paper |
Lovers Man and Woman | 1914; Vienna, Austria | oil,canvas |
Lying Woman | 1917 | oil,canvas |
Seated Woman with Green Stockings | 1918; Vienna, Austria | watercolor,paper |
Seated Woman with Her Left Hand in Her Hair | 1914; Vienna, Austria | watercolor,paper |
Seated Young Girl | 1910; Czech Republic | watercolor,paper |
Self Portrait | 1910; Czech Republic | watercolor,paper |
Self Portrait | 1910; Czech Republic | watercolor,paper |
Self Portrait | 1911 | watercolor,paper |
Self Portrait | 1912 | watercolor,paper |
Self Portrait | 1912 | watercolor,paper |
Self Portrait | 1914; Vienna, Austria | watercolor,paper |
Self-portrait as prisoner | 1912 | watercolor,paper |
Woman in Black Stockings | 1913; Vienna, Austria | watercolor,paper |
Woman Undressing | 1914; Vienna, Austria | watercolor,paper |
Woman with Black Hat | 1909; Vienna, Austria | oil,canvas |
Woman with Blue Stockings | 1912 | watercolor,paper |
Woman with Greyhound (Edith Schiele) | 1916; Vienna, Austria | watercolor,paper |
Woman with Long Hair | 1911 | watercolor,paper |
Woodland Prayer | 1915; Vienna, Austria | oil,canvas |
Young Boy | 1918; Vienna, Austria | gouache,pencil,watercolor,paper |
Madame Schiele | 1917; Vienna, Austria | |
Madame Sohn | 1918; Vienna, Austria | charcoal,paper |
Male Nude | c.1910 | watercolor,paper |
Man Bendind Down Deeply | 1914; Vienna, Austria | |
Man with Blue Headband and Hand on Cheek | 1909; Vienna, Austria | |
Meadow, Church and Houses | 1912 | oil,panel |
Meadow with Village in Background | 1907; Vienna, Austria | oil,canvas |
Melon | 1905; Tulln an der Donau, Austria | |
Moa | 1911 | watercolor,paper |
Mother and Child | 1914; Vienna, Austria | pencil,paper |
Self Portrait as St. Sebastian | 1914; Vienna, Austria | pencil,paper |
Self Portrait as St. Sebastian (poster) | 1914; Vienna, Austria | gouache,ink,crayon,cardboard |
Self Portrait, Facing Right | 1907; Vienna, Austria | oil,canvas |
Self portrait in a jerkin with right elbow raised | 1914; Vienna, Austria | chalk,gouache,pencil,paper |
Self Portrait in Lavender and Dark Suit, Standing | 1914; Vienna, Austria | watercolor,paper |
Self Portrait Nude | 1910; Czech Republic | watercolor,paper |
Self Portrait with Arm Twisting above Head | 1910; Czech Republic | watercolor,paper |
Self-Portrait with Black Vase and Spread Fingers | 1911 | oil,panel |
Self Portrait with Brown Background | 1912 | watercolor,paper |
Self Portrait with Checkered Shirt | 1917; Vienna, Austria | |
Young Mother | 1914; Vienna, Austria | oil,canvas |
The orange was the only light | 1912 | |
Arthur Roessler | 1910; Czech Republic | oil,canvas |
Mother and Child | 1914; Vienna, Austria | |
Mother and Child (Madonna) | 1908; Vienna, Austria | |
Mother with Two Children | 1917; Vienna, Austria | oil,canvas |
Mountain Torrent | 1918; Vienna, Austria | oil,canvas |
Nude with Red Garters | 1911 | |
Old Brick House in Carinthia | 1913; Vienna, Austria | watercolor,paper |
Old Houses in Krumau | 1914; Vienna, Austria | |
On the Beach, Moonlight | 1907; Vienna, Austria | watercolor,paper |
Peasant Homestead in a Landscape | 1913; Vienna, Austria | watercolor,paper |
Peasants Jug | 1918; Vienna, Austria | watercolor,paper |
Self-Portrait with Chinese lantern fruits | 1912 | oil,canvas |
Self Portrait with Hands on Chest | 1910; Czech Republic | watercolor,paper |
Self Portrait with Outstretched Arms | 1911 | watercolor,paper |
Self Portrait with Raised Arms, Back View | 1912 | watercolor,paper |
Self-Portrait with Raised Bared Shoulder | 1912 | oil |
Self Portrait with Spread Fingers | 1909; Vienna, Austria | oil,canvas |
Semi Nude, Back View | 1918; Vienna, Austria | pencil,paper |
Semi Nude with Colored skirt and Raised Arms | 1911 | watercolor,paper |
Setting Sun | 1913; Vienna, Austria | oil,canvas |
Silhouette of Klosterneuburg | c.1906 | watercolor,paper |
A Tree in Late Autumn | 1911 | oil,canvas |
Autumn Sun I (Rising Sun) | 1912 | oil,canvas |
Autumn Tree in Movement | 1912 | oil,canvas |
Autumn Tree with Fuchsias | 1909; Vienna, Austria | oil,canvas |
Back View of a Seated Female Nude with Black Hair, Bending | 1909 | |
Bare Tree behind a Fence | 1912 | oil,panel |
Black Haired Girl with High Skirt | 1911 | |
Blind Mother | 1914; Vienna, Austria | oil,canvas |
Boating | 1907; Vienna, Austria | oil,cardboard |
Boy in a Sailor Suit | 1913; Vienna, Austria | watercolor,paper |
Poldi Lodzinsky | 1910; Czech Republic | watercolor,paper |
Portrait of Albert Paris von Gutersloh | 1918; Vienna, Austria | oil,canvas |
Portrait of a Man with a Floppy Hat (Portrait of Erwin Dominilk Osen) | 1910; Czech Republic | watercolor,paper |
Portrait of an Old Man (Johann Harms) | 1916; Vienna, Austria | oil,canvas |
Portrait of a Woman | 1912 | |
Portrait of a Woman with Black Hair | 1914; Vienna, Austria | |
Portrait of a Woman with Blue and Green Scarf | 1914; Vienna, Austria | watercolor,paper |
Portrait of Dr. Hugo Koller | 1918; Vienna, Austria | oil,canvas |
Portrait of Dr. Viktor Ritter von Bauer | 1917; Vienna, Austria | watercolor,paper |
Portrait of Edith Schiele | 1918; Vienna, Austria | |
Single Houses | 1915; Vienna, Austria | oil,canvas |
Sitting Child | 1916; Vienna, Austria | pencil,paper |
Sitting girl | 1917 | |
Sitting Woman | 1914; Vienna, Austria | watercolor,paper |
Sitting Woman | 1918; Vienna, Austria | pencil,paper |
Sitting Woman in a Green Blouse | 1913; Vienna, Austria | |
Sleeping Child | 1910; Czech Republic | gouache,pencil,paper |
Spitalskirche, Molding | 1918; Vienna, Austria | |
Standing Female Nude in a Blue Robe | 1913; Vienna, Austria | watercolor,paper |
Standing Figure with Halo | 1913; Vienna, Austria | watercolor,paper |
Boy with Hand to Face | 1910; Czech Republic | watercolor,paper |
Cardinal and Nun (Caress) | 1912 | oil,canvas |
Ceramics | 1918; Vienna, Austria | watercolor,paper |
Child in Black | 1911 | watercolor,paper |
Church in Stein on the Danube | 1913; Vienna, Austria | oil,panel |
City on the Blue River | 1910; Czech Republic | |
City on the Blue River | 1911 | |
Clothed Woman, Reclining | c.1910 | watercolor,paper |
Composition with Three Male Figures (Self Portrait) | 1911 | watercolor,paper |
Composition with Three Male Nudes | 1910 | drawing |
Portrait of Edith Schiele, the artist's wife | 1915; Vienna, Austria | oil,canvas |
Portrait of Eduard Kosmack, Frontal, with Clasped Hands | 1910; Czech Republic | charcoal,paper |
Portrait of Eduard Kosmack with Raised Left Hand | 1910; Czech Republic | watercolor,paper |
Portrait of Erich Lederer | 1912 | oil,canvas |
Portrait of Erwin Dominilk Osen (Mime Van Osen) | 1910 | watercolor,charcoal |
Portrait of Erwin Dominilk Osen (Mime Van Osen) | 1910 | |
Portrait of Friederike Maria Beer | 1914; Vienna, Austria | oil,canvas |
Portrait of Heinrich Benesch | 1917; Vienna, Austria | watercolor,paper |
Portrait of Heinrich Rieger | 1917; Vienna, Austria | charcoal,paper |
Portrait of Johann Harms | 1916; Vienna, Austria | watercolor,paper |
Standing Girl in a Blue Dress and Green Stockings, Back View | 1913; Vienna, Austria | watercolor,paper |
Standing Girl in a Plaid Garment | c.1909 | |
Standing Male Nude | 1910; Czech Republic | watercolor,paper |
Standing Male Nude, Back View | 1910; Czech Republic | watercolor,paper |
Standing Nude with Large Hat (Gertrude Schiele) | 1910; Czech Republic | charcoal,paper |
Standing Woman | 1908; Vienna, Austria | watercolor,paper |
Standing Woman in Red | 1913; Vienna, Austria | watercolor,paper |
Stein on the Danube | 1913; Vienna, Austria | oil,panel |
Stein on the Danube, Seen from the Kreuzberg | 1913; Vienna, Austria | oil,canvas |
Stein on the Danube, Seen from the South | 1913; Vienna, Austria | |
Conversion | 1912 | oil,canvas |
Crouching Figure (Valerie Neuzil) | 1913; Vienna, Austria | watercolor,paper |
Danae | 1909; Vienna, Austria | oil,canvas |
Dead City (City on the Blue River) | 1911 | oil,panel |
Dead Mother | 1910; Czech Republic | oil,panel |
Design for a postcard | 1911 | |
Deuring Castle, Bregenz | 1912 | |
Double Portrait (Chief Inspector Heinrich Benesch and His Son Otto) | 1913; Vienna, Austria | oil,canvas |
Double Self Portrait | 1915; Vienna, Austria | watercolor,paper |
Edge of Town (Krumau Town Crescent) | 1918; Vienna, Austria | oil,canvas |
Portrait of Karl Maylander | 1917; Vienna, Austria | watercolor,paper |
Portrait of Karl Zakovsek | 1910; Czech Republic | oil,canvas |
Portrait of Leopold Czihaczek | 1907; Vienna, Austria | oil,canvas |
Portrait of Leopold Czihaczek (Head of a Bearded Man I) | 1907; Vienna, Austria | oil,cardboard |
Portrait of Leopold Czihaczek, in Profile Facing Left | 1907; Vienna, Austria | oil,cardboard |
Portrait of Leopold Czihaczek, Standing | 1907; Vienna, Austria | oil,canvas |
Portrait of Madame Dr. Horak | 1910; Czech Republic | |
Portrait of Marga Boerner | 1917; Vienna, Austria | |
Portrait of Miss Waerndorfer | 1913; Vienna, Austria | watercolor,paper |
Portrait of the Actress Marga Boerner | 1917; Vienna, Austria | |
Street in Krumau | 1917; Vienna, Austria | |
Study of hands | 1913; Vienna, Austria | watercolor,paper |
Summer Landscape, Krumau | 1917; Vienna, Austria | oil,canvas |
Sunflower | 1908; Vienna, Austria | oil,cardboard |
Sunflower | 1909; Vienna, Austria | watercolor,paper |
Sunflowers | 1911 | watercolor,paper |
Sunflowers | 1911 | oil,canvas |
The Art Dealer Guido Arnot | 1918; Vienna, Austria | oil,canvas |
The Artist's Mother, Sleeping | 1911 | watercolor,paper |
The Artist's Sister in Law in a Striped Dress | 1917; Vienna, Austria | watercolor,paper |
Edith Schiele, Seated | 1915; Vienna, Austria | watercolor,paper |
Female Model in Bright Red Jacket and Pants | 1914; Vienna, Austria | |
Female Nude | 1910; Czech Republic | watercolor,paper |
Female nude | 1910; Czech Republic | indian ink,watercolor,paper,tempera |
Female Nude Lying on Her Stomach | 1917; Vienna, Austria | |
Female Torso, Squatting | 1912 | |
Field Landscape (Kreuzberg near Krumau) | 1910; Czech Republic | |
Field of Flowers | 1910; Czech Republic | chalk,paper |
Fighter | 1913; Vienna, Austria | |
Forest with Sunlit Clearing in the Background | 1907; Vienna, Austria | oil,cardboard |
Portrait of the Artist's Wife | 1917; Vienna, Austria | watercolor,paper |
Portrait of the Artist's Wife Seated, Holding Her Right Leg | 1917; Vienna, Austria | watercolor,paper |
Portrait of the Composer Arthur Lowenstein | 1909; Vienna, Austria | chalk,paper |
Portrait of the Painter Anton Peschka | 1909; Vienna, Austria | oil,canvas |
Portrait of the Painter Max Oppenheimer | 1910; Czech Republic | watercolor,paper |
Portrait of Valerie Neuzil | 1912 | oil,panel |
Portrait of Victor Ritter von Bauer | 1918; Vienna, Austria | oil,canvas |
Poster for the Vienna Secession, 49th Exhibition, Die Freunde | 1918; Vienna, Austria | lithography,paper |
Pregnant woman and Death | 1911 | oil,canvas |
Procession | 1911 | oil,canvas |
The Artist's Sister, Melanie | 1908; Vienna, Austria | oil,canvas |
The Blind | 1913; Vienna, Austria | oil,canvas |
The Bridge | 1913; Vienna, Austria | oil,canvas |
The Brother | 1911 | watercolor,paper |
The Dancer Moa | 1911 | watercolor,paper |
The Daydreamer (Gerti Schiele) | 1911 | watercolor,paper |
The Green Stocking | 1914; Vienna, Austria | watercolor,paper |
The Holy Family | 1913; Vienna, Austria | |
The Mill | 1916; Vienna, Austria | oil,canvas |
The Self Seers (Death and Man) | 1911 | oil,canvas |
Four Trees | 1917; Vienna, Austria | oil,canvas |
Friendship | 1913 | |
Fuchsia | 1910; Czech Republic | |
Girl in a Blue Apron | 1912 | watercolor,paper |
Girl in Black | 1911 | watercolor,paper |
Girl in Black Pinafore, Wrapped in Plaid blanket | 1910; Czech Republic | watercolor,paper |
Girl in Blue Dress | 1911 | watercolor,paper |
Girl with Black Hair | 1910 | pencil,watercolor |
Girl with Green Pinafore | 1910; Czech Republic | |
Girl with Hood | 1910; Czech Republic | watercolor,paper |
Prophets (Double Self Portrait) | 1911 | oil,canvas |
Quatre arbres | 1917 | |
Reclining Boy Leaning on His Elbow | 1917; Vienna, Austria | watercolor,paper |
Reclining Female Nude | 1908; Vienna, Austria | watercolor,paper |
Reclining Female Nude | 1917; Vienna, Austria | watercolor,paper |
Reclining Girl on a Pillow | 1910; Czech Republic | |
Reclining Semi Nude with Red Hat | 1910; Czech Republic | watercolor,paper |
Reclining Woman with Blonde Hair | 1912; Vienna, Austria | watercolor,paper |
Reclining Woman with Blond Hair | 1914; Vienna, Austria | watercolor,paper |
Reclining Woman with Red Blouse | 1908; Vienna, Austria | watercolor,paper |
The sleeping girl | 1913; Vienna, Austria | watercolor,paper |
The Small City (Dead City) | 1912 | oil,panel |
Three Girls | 1911 | watercolor,paper |
Town on the Blue River | 1910; Czech Republic | |
Trees Mirrored in a Pond | 1907; Vienna, Austria | oil,cardboard |
Trieste Fishing Boat | 1912 | oil,canvas |
Triple Self Portrait | 1913; Vienna, Austria | watercolor,paper |
Two Boys | 1910; Czech Republic | watercolor,paper |
Two Female Nudes, One Reclining, One Kneeling | 1912 | watercolor,paper |
Two Friends | 1912 | watercolor,paper |
Woman with Black Stockings | 1912 | watercolor,paper |
Yellow City | 1914; Vienna, Austria | oil,canvas |
Embrace (Lovers II) | 1917 | Oil on Canvas |
Harbor of Trieste | 1907; Vienna, Austria | oil,cardboard |
Head of Dr. Fritsch | 1917; Vienna, Austria | watercolor,paper |
Hermits | 1912 | oil,canvas |
Hindering the Artist is a Crime, It is Murdering Life in the Bud | 1912 | watercolor,paper |
House Between Trees I | 1908; Vienna, Austria | oil,panel |
House on a River (Old House I) | 1915; Vienna, Austria | oil,canvas |
Houses by the River (The Old City) | 1914; Vienna, Austria | oil,canvas |
Houses on the Moldau, Krumau | 1910; Czech Republic | watercolor,paper |
Houses on the Town Square in Klosterneuberg | 1908; Vienna, Austria | oil,canvas |
Houses with Laundry (Seeburg) | 1914; Vienna, Austria | oil,canvas |
River Landscape | 1913; Vienna, Austria | oil,canvas |
Rufer | 1913; Vienna, Austria | watercolor,paper |
Russian Prisoner of War (Grigori Kladjishuli) | 1916; Vienna, Austria | watercolor,paper |
Russian Prisoner of War with Fur Hat | 1915; Vienna, Austria | pencil,paper |
Sailing Boat with Reflection in the Water | 1908; Vienna, Austria | oil,cardboard |
Sailing Ship with Dinghy | 1908; Vienna, Austria | oil,cardboard |
Sarena Lederer | 1917; Vienna, Austria | watercolor,paper |
Sawmill | 1913; Vienna, Austria | oil,canvas |
Schiele's Room in Neulengbach | 1911 | oil,wood |
Seated Child | 1917; Vienna, Austria | |
Two Girls | 1911 | watercolor,paper |
Two Girls on a Fringed Blanket | 1911 | watercolor,paper |
Two Guttersnipes | 1910; Czech Republic | watercolor,paper |
Two Kneeling Figures (Parallelogram) | 1913; Vienna, Austria | pencil,paper |
Two Little Girls | 1911 | watercolor,paper |
Two Seated Girls | 1911 | watercolor,paper |
Untitled | 1918 | pencil,paper |
Upright Standing Woman | 1912 | gouache,pencil,paper |
View from the Drawing Classroom, Klosterneuburg | c.1905 | |
View into the Apartment of Leopold and Marie Czihaczek | 1907; Vienna, Austria | oil,cardboard |
Two Women | 1915 | Watercolor on Paper |
Female Nude | 1910 | Gouache, Watercolor And Black Chalk With White Highlighting |
Self-portrait Standing | 1910 | Gouache, Watercolor And Pencil With White Highlighting |
Gerti Schiele | 1909 | Oil on Canvas |
Standing Male Nude with Red Loincloth | 1914 | Watercolor on Paper |
Semi-Nude Girl, Reclining | 1911 | Gouache, watercolor, and pencil with |
Scornful Woman | 1910 | Watercolor on Paper |
The Family | 1918 | Oil on Canvas |
Seated Couple (Egon and Edith Schiele) | 1915 | Gouache and pencil on paper |
Fighter | 1913 | Gouache And Pencil On Paper |
Pregnant Woman And Death | 1911 | Oil On Canvas |
Self-portrait With Raised Right Elbow | 1914 | Gouache, Watercolor And Black Chalk |
Mother And Two Children | 1917 | Oil On Canvas |
Self-portrait With Outstretched Arms | 1911 | Gouache, Watercolor And Pencil On Paper |
Little Tree (chesnut Tree At Lake Constance) | 1912 | Watercolor And Pencil On Paper |
Death and the Maiden | 1915 | Oil on Canvas |
Eduard Kosmack | 1910 | Oil on Canvas |
Portrait of the Artist's Wife, Seated | 1918 | Oil on Canvas |
Self-Portrait as St. Sebastian | 1914-15 | |
Self-Portrait Pulling Cheek | 1910 | Watercolor on Paper |
Reclining Woman with Green Stockings | 1917 | Gouache and black Crayon on paper |
The Truth Unveiled | 1913 | Watercolor on Paper |
Agony | 1912 | Oil on Canvas |
Autumn Trees | 1911 | Oil on Canvas |
Seated Girl | 1910 | Watercolor on Paper |