What is Egon Schiele?
{{Infobox Artist | name = Egon Schiele | image = Egon-schiele.jpg | image_size = 200px | caption = | birth_name = Egon Schiele | birth_date = {{birth date|1890|6|12|df=y}} | birth_place = [[Tulln]] | death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1918|10|31|1890|6|12}} | death_place = [[Vienna]] | nationality = [[Austria]]n | field = [[Painting]] | training = [[Academy of Fine Arts Vienna|Akademie der Bildenden Künste]] | movement = [[Expressionism]] | works = Porträt des Albert Paris von Gütersloh, 1918; Self-portrait, 1912 | patrons = | awards = }} '''Egon Schiele''' (12 June 1890 – 31 October 1918) ({{pronounced|ˈʃiːlə}}, or SHEE-luh) was a [[painter]] from [[Austria]]. Some people see his work as [[expressionism|expressionist]], but also in the [[art nouveau]] movement. With [[Gustav Klimt]] and [[Oskar Kokoschka]], he was among the most important artists of [[Wiener Moderne]]. The most important collection of Schiele's work is in the [[Leopold Museum]] in [[Vienna]]. Schiele died of [[influenza]], at only 28 years old of the [[pandemic]] known as [[Spanish flu]], which killed between 20 and 100 million people. == Images == <gallery> File:Egon Schiele 020.jpg|''Woman with green stockings'' (Frau mit den grünen Stümpfen), 1908 File:Egon Schiele 077.jpg|''Self-portrait clothed in black'' (Selbstporträt mit dem schwarzen Gewand),1910 File:Egon Schiele 074.jpg|''Self-portrait'' (Selbstportät), 1912 File:Egon Schiele 043.jpg|''Woman, lying down'' (Liegende Frau), 1917 File:Egon Schiele 094.jpg|''Four trees'' (Vier Bäume), 1917 File:Egon Schiele 088.jpg|''Stein an der Donau II'', 1913 File:Egon Schiele 013.jpg|''The Bridge'' (Die Brücke), 1913 File:Egon Schiele 004.jpg|''Old Mill'' (Alte Mühle), 1916 File:Egon Schiele 078.jpg|''Self-portrait'' (Selbstportät) File:Egon Schiele 061.jpg|''Portrait Eduard Kosmack'', 1910 </gallery> {{bio-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Schiele, Egon}} [[Category:Austrian painters]] [[Category:Deaths from influenza