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Auction: 16043 - Autographs, Historical Documents, Ephemera and Postal History
Lot: 114

Documents
Austria
Egon Schiele
1903 (26 April) Railway pass with portrait photograph of the artist as a twelve-year-old, written on the reverse "Egon Leo Schiele. Vienna". Head-and shoulders portrait (65 × 97 mm, somewhat rubbed), die stamp of the "k. k. Staatseisenbahndirection Wien"; mounted on cardboard with embossed signet of the studio by L. Grillich, Vienna; in original cardboard folder. Until his retirement in 1902, Schiele’s father worked as stationmaster in Tulln on the Danube. The 12-year-old Schiele’s signature in pencil and looks faded. Photo

Egon Schiele (1890 –1918) was an Austrian painter. A protégé of Gustav Klimt, Schiele was a major figurative painter of the early 20th century. His work is noted for its intensity and its raw sexuality, and the many self-portraits the artist produced, including naked self-portraits. The twisted body shapes and the expressive line that characterize Schiele's paintings and drawings mark the artist as an early exponent of Expressionism

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