Self-Portrait with Chinese Lantern Plant
Egon Schiele
1912. Oil and gouache on wood panel. 32.2 × 39.8 cm. Leopold Museum, Vienna, Austria.One of the most iconic self-portraits by Austrian Expressionist Egon Schiele. The composition relies on dramatic tension created by asymmetric cropping, a tilted head, and sharp linear contours contrasted with the twisting stems and vibrant red lanterns of the physalis plant. It represents the height of Schiele's mature linear style within Viennese Modernism.
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