Self-Portrait
Egon Schiele
1914
Medium
Drypoint
Dimensions
plate: 5 x 4-1/4 inches (12.7 x 10.7 cm) sheet: 8-5/8 x 6-7/8 inches (21.8 x 17.5 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Scofield Thayer, 1982
Accession Number
1984.1203.198.7
Tags
FacesSelf-portraits
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, ...