A work by Austrian Expressionist artist Egon Schiele is currently the subject of a battle between the Art Institute of Chicago and the Manhattan District Attorney’s office.
Egon Schiele
Here are eight paintings found in unusual places that turned out to be worth more than anticipated.
A previously unknown study by celebrated Austrian artist Egon Schiele (1890–1918), valued at $100,000 to $200,000, was discovered by an anonymous part-time art handler at a Habitat for Humanity…
Gustav Klimt’s richly decorative painting style and exquisite draughtsmanship made him one of the most distinctive artists of early Modernism. Step into his world in this short video, presented by…
NEW YORK – August Uribe, Head of Sotheby’s Impressionist & Modern Art Department in New York, commented: “Tonight we witnessed a healthy and intelligent market responding with enthusiasm to a…
When Elsa Koditschek was forced from her home and stripped of her possessions in 1940, Egon Schiele’s masterpiece City in Twilight was lost to her family as another casualty of the oppressive Nazi…
Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) and Egon Schiele (1890-1918) are two of the greatest artists Austria produced in the early twentieth century. Although born nearly thirty years apart, both tragically died…
Realism and abstraction are frequently cast as opposing forces in modernism’s developmental narrative. For reasons that had to do less with art-historical inevitably than with geopolitics,…
