In conservative, polite Vienna, in the year before the 100th anniversary of Egon Schiele’s death, the enthusiasm and genuine affection for this artist is at an all-time high. A new exhibition ...

Egon Schiele is a member of the club of great artists who died prematurely, incompletely creating and sharing their beauty and wisdom: Raphael, age 37; Mozart, 35; Shelley, 29; and, Keats, 25, to name ...

Museums around the world are gearing up to celebrate the centenary of the death of Egon Schiele (1890–1918). But in light of the art world’s ongoing reckoning with the #metoo movement, curators are ...

Egon Schiele, "Town among Greenery (The Old City III)" (1917), oil on canvas; Neue Galerie New York (all images courtesy Neue Galerie New York unless otherwise noted) Egon Schiele could be a late ...

Egon Schiele, “Wally in Red Blouse with Raised Knees” (1913), watercolor, gouache, and pencil. Private Collection (all images courtesy the Neue Galerie) Despite its inclusion of more than 130 works on ...

Two paintings with a combined value of nearly $10 million will hit the auction block Monday amid questions of whether they were looted by the Nazis from Jewish owners during the Third Reich, The Post ...

(JTA) — After a years-long battle to reacquire two paintings the Nazis stole from their ancestor before he became one of their early victims, the descendants of Austrian Jewish cabaret performer Fritz ...

Egon Schiele had peculiar ideas about how to find a wife. To attract his bourgeois neighbor's daughters, the Viennese painter unfurled self-portraits from his studio windows, and invited the girls out ...

Works by Austrian artist Egon Schiele were returned to its heirs Wednesday in New York. The original owner was murdered by Nazis. It's one of the longest-running holocaust restitution cases. In New ...

This shrewd and diverting French drama takes as its inspiration the rediscovery of a long-lost Egon Schiele masterwork. By Manohla Dargis A New York judge found that the Art Institute of Chicago’s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NEW YORK — Like his portraits of people, Egon Schiele’s landscape paintings are rarely pretty but often striking. Relatively early ...

Franz Friedrich “Fritz” Grünbaum was an Austrian-Jewish songwriter who openly mocked Hitler in his cabaret performances. He also had a fine collection of 450 artworks that included 81 paintings by ...