🎼 these hands are freaky, i know 🎶

Egon Schiele's late work at the Leopold Museum (& some quick pics I took in Vienna 🇦🇹)

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Egon Schiele

I was in Vienna last week for my brother’s wedding. It was beautiful and brought me a lot of joy. <3

There was also a massive exhibition of the later works of Egon Schiele (one of my faves) at the Leopold Museum!


Here are a bunch of close ups of hands.

I am absolutely obsessed with this freaky baby watercolor

Frankly grotesque baby hand…

Have you ever seen so perfect a signature as this?

Powerful enough to make me rethink everything!

A signature is truly just a design…I need to work on mine badly.

Anyway, genius.

A few other pieces I loved:

Self-Portrait with Lowered Head, 1912

Great hands here too. He was always doing stuff freakily.

quick composition sketch in his notebook

Ok full size of this newborn baby because it’s too good.

During the war, he worked at a POW camp and then in the storehouses away from any action. He was encouraged to draw when he had the time and so he drew what he had in front of him.

One of those hands above is actually from this Russian POW. ⬆️

Schiele’s comparatively chill war experience was kind of like a forced residency, if that’s ok to say!

Anyway, it is always a pleasure to see your favorite works in person.

And finally, some photos I took on the short walk to dinner the other night.

Being in a place that isn’t home helps in remembering to get the camera to play a little.

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