Egon Schiele, ’Portrait of Ida Roessler,’ 1912 Wien Museum, Vienna/Art Resource, NY/Erich Lessing (photo). Source: online.wsj.com
Currently on view at Neue Galerie, “Egon Schiele: Portraits” (October 19, 2014 – January 15, 2015) sheds a new light on this mysterious leading figure of early Expressionism. This is the first exhibition at an American museum to focus exclusively on the portraiture of Schiele (1890-1918), who died at the age of 28, leaving behind a provocative and prodigious body of work, as well as a lasting aura of mystique. In an insightful review in the New York Times, art critic Ken Johnson posits that there is a room in this exhibition in which “you see Schiele become Schiele.” For those of us who’ve been long captivated by Schiele’s penetrating energy and bravura lines, this is a sight not to be missed.
