Egon Schiele is a famous Austrian expressionist artist whose work bears resemblance to that of Gustav Klimt, who himself was an inspiration to Schiele throughout his early career.
Egon Schiele sadly lived only a short life but within that did manage to create an impressive amount of high quality sketches and paintings.
Both Schiele and Klimt are seen as exceptional sketchers and their chosen subjects were typically female models, many of which they would use several times after finding ones that we particular favourites to them.
Egon Schiele even used his wife as a model on many occasions and these make up some of his most famous paintings and sketches.
The artist's expressionist style meant that his work benefited when producing portraits of people with which he held strong connections or emotions, as these would invariably come out in each art work.
The artist is particularly well known as a nude artist but in general he was just a prolific portrait artist in general, and also showed off some impressive skills with landscape paintings as well which were excellent ways of showing off the natural beauty of his homeland, Austria.
The most famous art works by Egon Schiele included Four Trees, House with Drying Laundry, Nude with Green Stockings, Edith Schiele and Eremiten.
Those who enjoy the style used by Expressionist Egon Schiele should check out work by other related artists such as Gustav Klimt, Franz Marc and Wassily Kandinsky whose work was similarly driven by emotion but in technically varying ways which attract different people with different tastes but are all equally accepted by art academics who took some time to understand and appreciate work in this forward-thinking and imaginative way.
We can conclude that Egon Schiele is a critically important member of the expressionist art movement and also sits alongside Gustav Klimt in showing off the merits of Austrian art, with few other challenges able to match them for international academic acceptance and popularity from the public.
Few artists have developed a style which is so obviously theirs and Egon Schiele can be proud of what he could achieve in such a short life when most amateur artists struggle for success all their lives.
Schiele is generally seen as one of the most skilled exponents within this impressive collection of painters known as the expressionists who were crucial in the development of modern art from the late19th century all the way through to the present day.