Egon Schiele from the Collection of the Leopold Museum – Young Genius in Vienna 1900

The painter Egon Schiele (b.1890 - d.1918) led a short but intense life of twenty-eight years in Vienna where the arts had ripened during fin-de-siècle and succeeding decades. Afflicted with solitude and torments, Schiele vividly portrayed inner nature of human beings with a sensitivity. Expressive lines, volatile forms and striking colors in his works seem all to reflect the artist’s inner struggle and unremitting search for his true self. For the first time in almost thirty years, a full-scale exhibition of the short-lived genius will be held in Japan. The exhibition recreates Schiele’s milieu with fifty oil paintings and drawings by the artist as well as some seventy works by his contemporaries such as Gustav Klimt, Oskar Kokoschka and Richard Gerstl – mainly from the collection of Leopold Museum, Vienna.