Portrait of Arthur Roessler
Egon Schiele
1914
Medium
Drypoint
Dimensions
plate: 9-1/2 x 12-1/2 inches (23.7 x 32 cm) sheet: 13-3/4 x 19-3/4 inches (35 x 50 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Scofield Thayer, 1982
Accession Number
1984.1203.198.5
Rights
Public Domain
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About the Artist
Egon Schiele · 1890–1918
Egon Schiele (1890-1918) stands as one of the most provocative and psychologically penetrating artists of early twentieth-century European modernism. Born in Tulln an der Donau, Austria-Hungary, Schiele's brief but intensely productive life ended tragically at age twenty-eight when he and his pregnant wife Edith succumbed to the Spanish flu pandemic, mere days apart. Despite his truncated career, ...