Egon Schiele
Egon Schiele posters: portraits and figure drawings in thin line, hands and faces held at an angle. Browse the set and compare.
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Egon Schiele posters: the line that does not flatter
Egon Schiele (1890–1918) was an Austrian painter and draughtsman, protégé of Gustav Klimt and one of the defining figures of Viennese Expressionism. He died at twenty-eight, in the influenza pandemic of 1918, and left behind a body of work built almost entirely on line: thin, nervous contours that describe a body without softening it. His portraits are uncomfortable in a way that still works on a wall a century later.
What is in this collection
- Portraits and figures — the portrait print, Seated Woman with Legs and the artwork print. Spare backgrounds, the whole weight of the picture in the drawing.
- The Secession poster — Secession 49 comes from the Vienna Secession exhibition in which Schiele was the featured artist — a poster designed by the person it advertises.
- Provocative Art — a print that collects the side of his work that got him into trouble.
How to choose one
Schiele is intense. One print is enough, and it works best where you will not walk past it twenty times a day: a study, a hallway, a corner above a chair. The Secession poster is the easiest to live with, because the typography gives the eye something other than the figure.
He pairs with Kandinsky and Klee as a contrast: Vienna against the Bauhaus, the nervous line against the constructed one. For a warmer combination, put him next to Matisse and let the two ideas of the figure argue.
Sizes, paper and delivery
Every poster is printed on Hahnemühle paper and is available in sizes from 30×40 to 70×100 cm, plus A3 and A2. The drawings read well at 40×50; larger formats make the line monumental. Orders leave the studio within 24 business hours, delivery in the EU takes 3–5 working days (3–6 outside the EU), and every parcel is tracked.
Why Schiele still gets a reaction
Most portraits ask you to admire the sitter. Schiele's ask you to keep looking, and that is a different kind of attention — which is exactly what makes them survive in a room where nothing else is trying to hold your eye.
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