Editing Egon Schiele (section)

===Early life===
[[File:Egon Schiele - Selbstporträt - 1906.jpg|thumb|left|upright|Self-portrait, 1906 (aged 16)]]
Schiele was born in 1890 in [[Tulln]], [[Lower Austria]]. His father, Adolf Schiele, the station master of the Tulln station in the [[Austrian Federal Railways|Austrian State Railways]], was born in 1851 in [[Vienna]] to Karl Ludwig Schiele, a German from [[Ballenstedt]] and Aloisia Schimak; Egon Schiele's mother Marie, née Soukup, was born in 1861 in [[Český Krumlov]] (Krumau) to Franz Soukup, a Czech father from [[Mirkovice]], and Aloisia Poferl, a [[Sudeten Germans|German Bohemian]] mother from Český Krumlov.{{sfn|Wladika|2012|p=13}}{{sfn|Sabarsky|2000|pp=31–38}} Schiele had three sisters, Elvira, Melanie and Gertrude.<ref name=":1">{{Cite book |last=Jiminez |first=Jill Berk |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8vxXAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA492&dq=%22melanie+schiele%22&hl=sv&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&source=gb_mobile_search&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjv1bKbksOLAxXXHRAIHQQ_GXoQ6AF6BAgKEAM#v=onepage&q=%22melanie%20schiele%22&f=false |title=Dictionary of Artists' Models |date=2013-10-15 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-135-95921-0 |language=en}}</ref> Elvira died as a child of [[congenital syphilis]].<ref name=":1" /> Before the birth of Schiele his mother had suffered the still-births of three sons.<ref name=":2" /> 

According to family lore Adolf Schiele had contracted syphilis during his honeymoon in [[Trieste]], when he had visited a brothel<ref name=":2" /> after his new wife, scared of the consummation of the marriage, fled their bedroom. When the couple had sex a few days later her husband then passed on the disease to his wife.<ref name=":2" />

As a child, Schiele was fascinated by trains, and would spend many hours drawing them. Seeing Schiele's drawing as a detriment to his son's schoolwork, his father destroyed these sketchbooks.{{cn|date=April 2025}}

Schiele senior was known to have had an interest in collecting minerals and butterflies and also liked to draw.<ref name=":22">{{Cite book |last=Selsdon |first=Esther |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TtQA0Fec6NMC&pg=PA7&dq=%22egon+schiele%22+mirror+flu&hl=sv&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&source=gb_mobile_search&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiqjrf_lsOLAxUYHhAIHa9bAFQQ6AF6BAgIEAM#v=onepage&q=%22egon%20schiele%22%20mirror%20flu&f=false |title=Egon Schiele |last2=Zwingerberger |first2=Jeanette |date=2012-01-17 |publisher=Parkstone International |isbn=978-1-78042-737-9 |language=en}}</ref> Schiele's family life was however  deeply influenced by his father's illness and as the syphilis progressed it left him in a state of mental confusion and would oftentimes cast him into fits of rage. 

When he was 11 years old, Schiele moved to the nearby city of [[Krems an der Donau|Krems]] (and later to [[Klosterneuburg]]) to attend secondary school. To those around him, Schiele was regarded as a strange child. Shy and reserved, he did poorly at school except in athletics and drawing,{{sfn|Whitford|1981|p=30}} and was usually in classes made up of younger pupils. He also displayed a sexual interest in his younger sister Gertrude (who was known as ''Gerti''), and his father once broke down the door of a locked room that Egon and Gerti were in to see what they were doing, only to discover them developing film. When he was sixteen he took the twelve-year-old Gerti by train to [[Trieste]] without permission and spent a night in a hotel room with her.{{sfn|Whitford|1989|p=29}}