One of the most important artists of the early twentieth century, Egon Schiele is vastly influential--not just in his native Austria, where he was a major figure of Austrian expressionism, but around the world. Yet Schiele spent almost his entire life in Vienna and Lower Austria, and the cultural currents of the region can be seen in the ways he thought about and made art.
With Egon Schiele: The Beginning, Christian Bauer focused...