A Life Forged in Expression Egon Schiele’s life, a turbulent and intensely personal journey, unfolded from his birth in Tulln an der Donau in 1890, a small Austrian town nestled along the Danube. His early years were shadowed by profound loss – first the death of his father, Adolf Schiele, a railway station master consumed by syphilis when Egon was just fourteen, and later the untimely passing of his sister Elvira. This early exposure…