Egon Schiele and his paintings

1890 Egon Schiele is born in the town of Tulln on the Danube, the son of Adolf and Marie Schiele. He has a sister, Gertrude, who is the subject of many of his paintings.

Encouraged by Ludwig Karl Strauch, Schiele leaves secondary school at Klosterneuberg to study at Vienna's Acadamy of Fine Arts, he participated in his first public exhibition at the convent of Klosterneuberg, Saw the Kunstschau organized by Klimt and his circle. Together with a number of classmates, Egon Schiele leaves the Academy on 17 June to form their own group, the Neukunstgruppe, Participates in the international Kunstschau, sequel to the previous year's Kunstschau, a the invitation of klimt. In December the Neukunstgruppe has its own show at Gustav Pisko's gallery. Here he meets Arthur Roessler, critic f the Areiter-Zeitung, future friend, Patron and critic of Schiele's painting works.

In 1911, Egon Moved to Kurumanu toether with his model and partner, Valerie Neuzil. Forced from the town by public opinion, he moves to Neulengbach. Egon was ever arrested and imprisoned for exposing minors to pornography in Neulengbach. Schiele learned and attempted to exploit, with little success, the techniques of graphic art, producing a series of etchings. Anton Joseph Trcka produceds a series of photographs of Schiele, some of the which the artist alters to become self-portrait.