Egon Schiele: A Life Painted in Shadow and Light Egon Schiele (1890-1918) remains one of the most intensely personal and unsettling figures in 20th-century art. His brief, tragically cut-short life produced a body of work that defies easy categorization, oscillating between Expressionism’s raw emotion and a deeply rooted exploration of human vulnerability—particularly its darker aspects. Born in Tulln an der Donau, Austria, Schiele's…