Egon Schiele. The Paintings. Art Coffee Table Book

The Unbridled Genius of Egon Schiele: A Masterpiece for Your Coffee Table 🖼️🎨

Schiele had merely ten years to cement his legacy after emerging from Gustav Klimt's considerable shadow, yet what he achieved in that compressed timeframe continues to reverberate through contemporary art. This luxury art book captures the raw intensity of an artist who refused to conform, whose works spoke a language of brutal honesty that would forever alter Viennese society.

512 pages 📖

Where Klimt painted decorative hymns to love and devotion, Schiele offered something far more visceral. His haggard, elongated figures and unflinching depictions of sexuality represented a seismic shift in European Expressionism. The artist's self-portraits remain particularly arresting, staging himself with expressions that teeter between genius and madness, a deliberate provocation that scandalised and fascinated in equal measure.

Dimensions: 15.6 x 4.4 x 21.7 📕

Fascinating Facts About the Artist 🎭

Child prodigy extraordinaire: Schiele demonstrated exceptional artistic talent from an early age, fully aware of his own genius and unafraid to proclaim it.

Klimt's protégé turned revolutionary: Despite their eventual stylistic differences, Gustav Klimt recognized Schiele's brilliance early on, becoming both mentor and patron.

Tragic end: The Spanish flu pandemic claimed both Schiele and his pregnant wife Edith within days of each other in October 1918. He was just 28 years old.

Posthumous vindication: After being branded "degenerate" and largely forgotten, Schiele's work has profoundly influenced artists from Francis Bacon to Tracey Emin, and now commands astronomical prices at auction.