28.03.2025 – 13.07.2025
The exhibition combines biographical and artistic elements and focuses on the breaks and changes in Schiele’s ‘late work’ from 1914 to 1918, which has received less attention to date. Schiele gradually abandoned the radical formal experiments of the years 1910 to 1914 and developed a more realistic style characterized by a deeper empathy. His stroke calmed down, became more flowing and organic, and the sitters gained in physical fullness. The exhibition also provides new insights into this decisive period through the interweaving of contemporary archival material, such as Edith Schiele’s previously unpublished diary. Around 130 works of art from Austrian and international collections are presented in the purely monographic show, which is divided into nine thematic areas. The large-format portrait of the painter Albert Paris von Gütersloh from 1918 from the Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minnesota, is one of the highlights of the show, as are four previously unknown works on paper, which are being exhibited for the first time.
Times of upheaval. Egon Schiele’s last years: 1914-1918
28.03.2025 – 13.07.2025
Leopold Museum
Museumquartier Wien
Museumplatz 1
1070 Vienna
www.leopoldmuseum.org
