Portrait Of Wally Neuzil
1912
Staring out with piercing blue eyes and a slightly tilted head, Wally Neuzil looks both vulnerable and defiant in this striking 1912 portrait. Schiele, a master of Austrian Expressionism, captured his young muse and lover with his signature raw, scratchy brushstrokes and stark contrasts between her pale skin and dark dress. But this painting has a wild history beyond the canvas: looted by the Nazis during World War II, it sparked a massive, decades-long legal battle over art restitution in the 1990s before finally being returned to the heirs of its original owner.
Location: Leopold Museum, Vienna
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