Egon Schiele – Seated Woman (Artist's Wife) (1917)

Louisiana poster with the work, Seated Woman (the artist's wife), 1917 , by Austrian, Egon Schiele (1890-1918). With Louisiana's exhibition, Vienna 1900 - Art and Design, in 1991, for the first time in Scandinavia, one could see a comprehensive presentation of the breakthrough of modern art in Vienna around the year 1900. Not least the visual arts, here represented by Egon Schiele, a central figurative painter at the beginning of the 20th century.

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Seated Woman is also known as Seated Woman with Bended Knee and is a portrait of Schiele's wife, Edith. Schiele produced portraits of Edith in oil, watercolor, and ink until her death during the Spanish Flu.

When Schiele began studying at the art academy, he came into contact with Gustav Klimt, who was then a well-established artist in Vienna. In 1909, Klimt invited Schiele to exhibit four paintings at the Vienna Kunstschau, where Schiele was in good company - with pictures by Munch, Matisse, Kokoschka, Gauguin and Van Gogh.

Schiele had a wide range of subjects. Landscapes, cities, trees, flowers – but not least images of people, where eroticism became a central motif for Schiele: He moved outside the typical nude studies of the time and described sexual activity very directly.

Egon Schiele is seen as one of the early exponents of expressionism, with his early, often slightly distorted works evolving into a more graceful, precise and technically advanced expressionist style.

Dimensions: W: 59.4 x H: 84.1 cm (A1)

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Frame: 12mm
Material: Frame in solid oak and with high-quality acrylic glass.