Egon Schiele Biography:
Egon Schiele was born June 12, 1890, in Tulln, Austria. He enrolled in the Akademie der Bildenden Kunste in Vienna, where he studied painting and drawing but was frustrated by the school's conservatism. In 1907, he met Gustav Klimt, who encouraged him and influenced his work. Upon Klimt's invitation, Schiele exhibited his art, prints and posters at the 1909 Vienna Kunstschau, where he encountered the work of Edvard Munch, Jan Toroop, Vincent Van Gogh, and others. By this time, Schiele had developed a personal expressionist portrait and landscape style and was receiving a number of portrait commissions from the Viennese intelligentsia.
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