EGON SCHIELE (Sketches)

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SUNDAY Feature on ART of Architecture -by Gautam Shah 

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This post covers Sketches of the Artist 

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Egon Schiele (1890-1918), was one of the most prolific Austrian artists, who in a short life of 28 years, produced more than Three Thousand works. Schiele from young age was fond of drawing trains from his station master father’s house. At the age of 16, he moved to Vienna to study at the Academy of Fine Arts. Here, Gustav Klimt who had formed the Vienna Secession, became his mentor. But Egon moved away from Klimt’s ornate style and developed own Expressionist style.

By the early 1910s, Schiele’s work was full of an obsessive exploration of the human body, including taboo subjects far beyond conventional eroticism. His sketches are realistic where lines often run continuously. His compositions have innate spatial contours and go beyond the nominal depth related distortions. Colours only add to the magic. The architectural forms stand by themselves and do not rely on contrast, colour or background.

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