mortolito:

Martha Fein: Egon Schiele’s Deathbed
(1918, photography) 

jadore-les-barbes:

Martha Fein: Egon Schiele im Totenbett, 1918

folhasefogueiras:

egon schiele - deathbed, 1918

To restrict the artist is a crime. It is to murder germinating life.

June 12, 1890 – October 31, 1918

skinningkids:

schiele’s portraits of a deceased gustav klimt. incredible, fast sketches done in the morgue, after his death. they were originally sketched horizontally, but turned and presented vertically for added interest and humanisation. i know i can associate better with the upright faces better, processing the pain. the other thing i love about these is that they are the perfect example (in subject matter and construction) of schiele’s unique ideas of truth through imperfection, visible through the distortions in his work throughout his artistic life. the “mis-drawn”  nose in the second one is not erased, and instead there are two nose-profiles. he did not erase in his drawings, believing there were no true mistakes, cherishing the state of impression and ironically adding life to the dead figure. egon schiele is one of my favourite artists, it’s a true shame that he died so young.

headfuck:

egon schiele - deathbed, 1918

Egon Schiele, deathbed 1918 (via dunes)

tobia:

billyjane:i12bent:
Martha Fein took this photo of Schiele on his death bed…
A few days before Egon died from the Spanish Flu, his wife Edith (who was six months pregnant) had passed away too…