Artists

Egon Schiele

Press release

The exhibition "Changing Times. Egon Schiele's Last Years: 1914–1918" weaves together biographical and artistic elements, focusing on the ruptures and transformations in Egon Schiele’s “late works” from 1914 to 1918, a period that has received comparatively little attention until now. During this time, Schiele gradually abandoned the radical formal experiments of 1910 to 1914 and developed a more realistic style characterized by deeper empathy. His linework became calmer, more fluid, and organic, and the figures he depicted gained greater physical fullness. The exhibition also offers new insights into this pivotal period by incorporating contemporary archival materials, such as the previously unpublished diary of Edith Schiele.

The purely monographic exhibition, divided into nine thematic sections – The Search for the Self | Couples | Edith Anna Schiele, née Harms | Family | Life in the Army | Landscape | The Female Figure | Portraits | Success and Final Works – presents approximately 130 artworks from Austrian and international collections. Highlights include the large-scale portrait of painter Albert Paris von Gütersloh from 1918, on loan from the Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minnesota, and four previously unknown works on paper, displayed here for the first time.