Portrait of a Man (Männliches Bildnis)
1914
Egon Schiele, the wild child of Viennese Expressionism, captured this intense male profile with scratchy, nervous lines that practically vibrate off the page. Created in 1914, it shows his signature raw style—stripping away polite realism to reveal the psychological tension underneath. Schiele was only 24 here, already pushing boundaries that had previously landed him in jail for 'immoral' art, though this particular portrait feels more like a quiet, brooding study than his usual scandalous nudes. He would tragically die just four years later during the Spanish flu pandemic, making these early works some of his most poignant surviving pieces.
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