Schiele (en)

He knows that the urge to look is interconnected with the mechanisms of disgust and allure.

. His models characterize an incredible freedom with respect to their own sexuality, self-love, homosexuality or voyeuristic attitudes, as well as skillful seduction of the viewer.

Schiele”s art represents the erotic portrayal of the human body.

Schiele responded that for him there exists no modernity, only the “eternal”.

In 1897, Klimt together with his Viennese fellow artists founded the Vienna Secession, a splinter group separated from the officially accepted conduct for artists under the motto: “To the times its art, to the art its freedom”

His models characterize an incredible freedom with respect to their own sexuality, self-love, homosexuality or voyeuristic attitudes, as well as skillful seduction of the viewer.

probably have become aware that art is more than just a matter of middle-class luxury.”

“We live in the most violent time the world has ever seen. Hundreds of thousands of people perish miserably, everyone must bear his fate either living or dying; we have become hard and fearless.

The intimacy between painter and model is countered in relationship to viewer and drawing.

Because of the high danger of infection, the last visitors were able to communicate with the Spanish flu-infected Schiele only by way of a mirror, in which he viewed himself and his models, which was set up on the threshold between his room and the parlor.