Art: Egon Schiele: the Radical Nude: >A Radical Reimagining

摘要

Only once before have the works of Egon Schiele (1890–1918) been exhibited in this country, and there are no major works of his in any UK collection: a blind spot exemplified in the 1960s by The Burlington Magazine, that mandarin among art historical publications, denouncing Schiele’s work as the kind of thing you find daubed on the walls of public lavatories. It is true that some of the work in this show is ‘pornographic’, in that the depiction of sexual organs is explicit: Schiele was himself imprisoned for public immorality after children happened to see some of these works.