Paris by Gütersloh
1918
Staring right back at you with wide, almost haunted eyes, this portrait captures the intense psychological depth Egon Schiele was famous for. Created in 1918, the very year the artist tragically died from the Spanish flu at just 28, the drawing features his signature jagged, nervous lines that seem to vibrate with anxiety. The subject, writer Paris von Gütersloh, looks like he's just seen a ghost, with his collar pulled up tight as if bracing against a cold wind. Schiele's expressionist style stripped away polite realism to reveal the raw, trembling nerves underneath the skin.
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