Egon Schiele (1890-1918)

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In 1912 he was convicted by a court for distributing immoral images, drawings, posluzhivschie evidence of such misconduct, were confiscated, and he spent 3 days in jail.
After leaving her with a sense of injustice of his conviction, he conducted a large number of increasingly challenging erotic drawings, in which he portrays a misunderstood victim of society.

In 1915, Sheila and Valerie Noytsil parted. June 17 the same year he married Edith Harms. Soon he was mobilized and sent first to Prague and then Vienna.

Temvremenem art Schiele evolved: it has become more balanced, has found peace.
In 1918 he painted "Family", which very clearly shows that the development of his style. Work was in the same year with great success shown in the Vienna Secession. Most of the exhibited works were sold. But on Oct. 28, his wife died from inflyuentsy, and three days later, on Oct. 31, 1918, from the same disease died, and the artist himself.