Editing Egon Schiele (section)

==Style==
[[Jane Kallir]] has described Schiele's work as grotesque, erotic, pornographic, or disturbing, with a focus on sex, death, and discovery. He focused on portraits of others as well as himself. In his later years, while he still worked often with nudes, they were done in a more realist fashion.{{sfn|Kallir|2003|pp=277, 362, 444}} From a young age, Schiele drew with 'manic fluency'.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|last=Gayford|first=Martin|date=8 November 2014|title=Egon Schiele at the Courtauld: a one-note samba of spindly limbs, nipples and pudenda {{!}} The Spectator|url=https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/egon-schiele-at-the-courtauld-a-one-note-samba-of-spindly-limbs-nipples-and-pudenda|access-date=22 June 2021|website=[[The Spectator]]|language=en}}</ref>

Art critic Martin Gayford wrote in ''[[The Spectator]]'': 'He [Schiele] found his distinctive style very early. His entire oeuvre is that of a young man; most of the work in the first of the two rooms of this densely packed little exhibition dates from 1910 to 1911, when Schiele (1890–1918) was just 20. That helps to explain some tendencies: a half-disgusted preoccupation with sexuality and a similarly queasy fascination with examining his naked self. The male figures mainly seem to have been modelled by the artist, though it is hard to be certain since the head is often not included.'<ref name=":0" />

Kallir and scholar Gerald Izenberg regard Schiele as fluid in sexuality and gender. Kallir says Schiele was "struggling with his own sexual feelings and gender norms" during a historical period of shifting gender expectations, the [[Women's suffrage in Austria|early women's movement]], and [[criminalization of homosexuality]]. Some critics in the 21st century read his artwork as [[queer]].<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.dazeddigital.com/art-photography/article/42322/1/lgbtq-legacy-egon-schiele-art-painting-vienna-exhibition-royal-academy |title=The hidden LGBTQ legacy of Egon Schiele's art works |date=December 3, 2018 |first=Lydia |last=Morrish |magazine=Dazed & Confused Magazine }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |title=Egon Schiele: Expressionist Art and Masculine Crisis |doi=10.2513/s07351690pi2603_11 |date=June 2006 |journal=Psychoanalytic Inquiry |volume=26 |number=3 |pages=462–483 |doi-broken-date=1 November 2024 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/241730124 }}</ref>

A less known fact about Schiele's career is that, during his studies at the School of Arts and Crafts in Vienna, he explored sculpture and created a number of small-scale clay and plaster sculptures.<ref>{{cite web |title=Egon Schiele, Austrian, 1890–1918. Selbstbildnis, circa 1917 |url=https://www.artnet.com/auctions/artists/egon-schiele/selbstbildnis-8 |access-date=2025-01-11 |website=[[artnet]]}}</ref>