Landscape with Houses
1917
Egon Schiele, famous for his intense and often unsettling portraits, took a breather in 1917 to sketch this serene, minimalist landscape. You can see a row of clustered houses perched precariously on a hilltop, looking down over sweeping, wavy lines that suggest rolling fields or a riverbank. Despite being an Expressionist known for raw emotion, Schiele strips this scene down to its bare essentials, leaving a massive expanse of empty paper below. It's a quiet, almost lonely moment captured just a year before his tragic death at age 28.