CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 7/10/2017

The torment of the loner, the distress of the seeker beset by visions: Egon Schiele

“Very early in the work of the young Schiele, one comes to expect his rigorous rejection of the non-committal and superficial. Instead, one sees him struggling to express the deepest human emotions. His paintings speak of the torment of the loner, the distress of the seeker beset by visions, the pain and despair of the sick, and the sorrow of the hopeless. Schiele manages to elevate subjective emotion to the level of universal truth.” - Rudolph Leopold, Egon Schiele: Masterpiece from the Leopold Museum. Featured image is “Self-portrait with Chinese Lantern Plant” (1912).