Egon Schiele

Even pioneering and similarily reviled contemporaries of Egon Schiele (1890-1918) such as Kokoschka had their reservations about the "pornographic" side to Schiele's visual world which led him to imprisonment for disseminating immoral drawings. Schiele explored the image of women from many various angles -- from the budding, akward body of the pubescent girl via models in seductive, explicite poses. His unsparing passion was not only brought to bear on female nudes, his scrutiny of male nudes, and particularly of his own body, recorded in countless drawings, gouaches and watercolor, was equally unremitting. In 1911, he wrote "the erotic work of art is sacred too."Zwingenberger, Jeanette is the author of 'Egon Schiele' with ISBN 9781859957202 and ISBN 185995720X.