Houses With Laundry (Suburb II)
1914
Egon Schiele's 'Houses With Laundry (Suburb II)' looks like a town that's been squeezed together and wrapped in colorful laundry lines. Painted in 1914, this Expressionist masterpiece abandons realistic perspective, instead stacking jagged roofs and vibrant clotheslines against a striated, almost hypnotic sky. It's a raw, energetic snapshot of life in Krumau, showing how Schiele preferred to capture the emotional pulse of a place rather than its exact appearance. The rhythmic rows of laundry create a sense of bustling daily life, contrasting with the somewhat eerie, flattened landscape.
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