Portrait of Edith Schiele
1915
Check out that magnificent, cloud-like hair! Egon Schiele sketched his wife, Edith, in 1915, the very year they finally got married after a scandalous romance that once landed him in jail. Her large, staring eyes and the jagged, nervous lines of her coat are classic Schiele—raw, elegant, and emotionally charged. Tragically, this portrait captures a fleeting moment of happiness; just three years later, both Egon and Edith would die from the Spanish Flu pandemic at the age of 28, leaving behind a legacy of intense, beautiful art.
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