Seated Woman with Bent Knees (Adele Herms)
1917
Egon Schiele's raw, angular style is on full display here, capturing a woman in a deeply introspective, almost contorted pose. Painted in 1917, the year before his tragic death from the Spanish flu, this piece features his signature jagged lines and unsettling, direct gaze. The subject, Adele Herms, is depicted with vibrant red hair and a striking green top, huddled against her own knees in a way that feels both vulnerable and defiant. Schiele was a master of Austrian Expressionism, known for pushing boundaries with his provocative portraits of the human form, often leaving parts of the paper blank to heighten the emotional intensity.
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