Austrian Expressionist News Today

The one-act opera adaptation by composer Jake Heggie and librettist Gene Scheer tells the story of a man who was the heir to an art fortune worth millions.

The museum asserts it is the rightful owner of an Egon Schiele drawing that New York investigators say in a new court filing was stolen by the Nazis.

Two works by Austrian Expressionist painter Egon Schiele, looted by Nazis, were returned to the heirs of the Holocaust victim who owned them.

In a new book, Yale’s Richard Deming explores how people can find human connection through their feelings of loneliness rather than be consumed by them.

A concert version of 1924 film, The City Without Jews, plus a reimagined Woody Guthrie song.

Six artworks, previously stolen by Nazis and recently returned to the heirs of an Austrian Jewish owner, to be auctioned in New York.

Six artworks stolen by the Nazis and returned recently to the heirs of the Austrian Jew who owned them will be auctioned in New York next month, Christie's said Thursday.Grunbaum's heirs had been fighting for the artworks' return for years.

Three of the works -- watercolors on paper, thought to be worth up to $2.5 million each -- will be auctioned on November 9 and three others will go up two days later as part of Christies fall auctions.

Six of the seven pieces by Egon Schiele will hit auction block next month, after years-long fight by descendants of cabaret dancer Fritz Grunbaum for their return

Egon Schiele was an Austrian Expressionist painter who, despite his short life, had a major influence on Modernist figurative painting in the 20th century. View Egon Schiele’s 2,123 artworks on artnet. Find an in-depth biography, exhibitions, original artworks for sale, the latest news, and sold auction prices. See available works on paper, prints and multiples, and sculpture for sale and learn about the artist.