Sorrow (Kümmernis)
Egon Schiele
1914, published 1922
Medium
drypoint in dark green on laid paper
Dimensions
plate: 47.5 x 31.6 cm (18 11/16 x 12 7/16 in.) sheet: 70.6 x 51 cm (27 13/16 x 20 1/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen
Accession Number
2006.162.18
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, ...