We. Shouldnt talk dont seek us dont have close doing and sheely a key quote by a going shooter from the time of his imprisonment maintains that art cannot be modern. This was an extremely radical claim to make which on the one hand shows the rebellious side of this very young painter. And at the same time summarizes the essence of viennese modernism as you know which was not a modernism that promised a glorious future or claim to improve the human condition or bring mankind happiness but. It was far more introspection or returned to ones inner self. Is a self critical modernism to take them in the known and it was this return to the self they gave modernist viennese art of power and an appeal that other art movements were lacking. Peacefully perk being free so most good is of no but. The real part museum in vienna houses the worlds most comprehensive collection of works by a go and see them. The old collective good old flu part began acquiring the Oil Paintings washes and drawings in the 1950 s. His passion for the austrian pain to serve to revive interest in an artist who otherwise may well have been forgotten. Its all male only i was and not just with an enormous practice i also had 3 children and a crazy husband i dont mean that disparagingly but in the sense that he could take huge 1000 things he said right from the start that he was a great artist who was not appreciated. Back in the 1950 s. No one gave she never thought. You could export and import his works without austrias federal Monuments Authority taking any interest and people said my husband was crazy collecting she. Said she was. Feeling sets the standard for sheila set the standard for the generations of contemporary artists who followed him in the 20th and 21st century as he set new rules for artists he said an artist is self sufficient a rebel and all voluntary black and agitator an artist works for no one but himself. Sheilas works were considered obscene and we know he spent a brief time in jail but in reality his works were exactly the opposite they were characterized by an almost painful clarity and openness a rawness and purity. And when you see the pictures here you notice that he actually approached all of his subjects his flowers nudes and landscapes all in the same way always with the same empathy and devotion went ok. She has naked truth is effective for another Vienna Museum the other betina its director has a knack for staging exhibitions that pull in the crowds he acknowledges a deep personal fascination with she is good as an a prostitute. To say that any serious encounter with art offers a window of self discovery a confrontation in which we wrestle with the existential questions that affect us is a platitude. Its a big claim and very often exaggerated but its true of aegon sheila i dont think anyone can view a single one of his news without questioning not just the artists stance on sexuality nudity and vulnerability but their own as well as that. Different. Quotes. From. The emotional encounter with a gun sheilas work is due not only to the delight i take of his incredible virtuosity as an artist but also an encounter and a confrontation with myself just. Legend has it that never used any razor and needed very little time to produce a drawing sometimes no more than a few minutes. Generated this enormous energy. Was it an act of liberation and if so from what. The worlds leading experts on a gone sheila is jane callia from new york her answer to these questions is closely linked to the Vienna Academy of fine arts. For sheila obviously the. Principal fear. For expressing. Human existence in all of its diversity and complexity was the human body. I think that he was one of the greatest 1st students of and then masters of the human form he could draw it with perfect accuracy but since he had such a complete command over the body he could also deadened it and move it and distort it and make it tell a story and i think she was very interested to explore this question people look at his war. And they say my goodness. Its so terrify its so ugly and he even comments that i have doubtless pated terrible pictures do they believe i did it on purpose just to shock the bores who are see this is never been the case but there are specters that are brought forth by longing and i have painted such specters not because i enjoyed it i just have to. Memories of it on sheilas childhood in his birthplace the austrian town of turin on the dun you. Heavy steam trains shook the sheila family home by graysons could be seen and felt in the apartment. And trains with the subject of young a guns 1st drawings his father she lived was stationmaster in tune a key rail hub in the austriahungary an empire a hot tempered man he sensed his sons Exceptional Talent very early on. If that is a few that see this unit those one very revealing story is where having noticed how his son spent all his time drawing they dont she love brought him a drawing pad and told him that every day after doing his latin homework he should drop picture on one page and then hed look at it when it was filled. It up sheila evidently thought this would give him a few weeks peace. He gave a go on the exercise book in the morning when he returned home for lunch he saw that all the pages had already been filled and that they were strewn all over the apartment. He had a fit and burnt the drawings. This story tells us that egg on his father was willing to foster his sons talent but only on his own terms. In other words the father specified that one hour a day would be sufficient to foster his sons artistic talents. So you see a guy who didnt have mozarts father otherwise a tough sheila would have taken his cue from his son and realized that what he was offering in terms of fostering a dance talent was nowhere near enough. d by all appearances the family led a comfortable middle class life. With 3 children grew up in safety and prosperity. But even today these rooms seem to tell a different story. d around the year 9980 dollars she live began to suffer from the symptoms of untreated syphilis. As he succumbed to insanity the family stable life became unhinged. Who are you and what are you doing here kathy im getting. I was born here in 1904 and im a guns younger sister. And thats where he slept of them over there in the corner on the other side is melanies bed she was that elder sister you lived here for many years what memories do you still have feelings have to start before so much happened here but i cant remember it all they say you and your brother and sister had a very comfortable life here the soviets find things onto always what they seem. Whenever we went out we were different in here a lot of things happened my father his disease. We didnt really understand what was happening life was perhaps melanie knew more do you want to tell us about it. Yes so often that stove over there. We children must already have been asleep when suddenly we heard loud noises coming from our parents bedroom where they are going to keep arguing my mother of all people arguing with my father no she was patience personified she put up with everything so what happened for you know he lit a fire i heard him opening the stove door and be off then i got up it was the middle of the night 5 my father was burning stacks of paper i didnt know what exactly was that of those people i only found out later that he burned all of our shareholdings so. The glow from the fire fell on his face to. Face those ice all the illuminated face of a father who had gone mad and so it was like to be part of in fact us. How did you handle it did you talk to your brother about it but i talk about it with him by then my brother was living in closed annoyed. We never discussed my father i shall not look at work but that was his way of talking about it. On to story and spend a lot of time trying to decode she lives off an enigma and allegorical iconography. Is this the key to his you know world. The arts center in the small town of google near vienna was once a Psychiatric Institute that used their appeal as a form of treatment for its patients today its an onsite assisted living facility called the house of artists which enables patients to live independently as they pursue artistic work the intensity of the works on display here is reminiscent of sheila and i are those women of. The life you lead was born into wasnt necessarily a good one he was a hard struggle. As a child he witnessed his fathers outings to vienna to visit prostitutes where he can practice the disease that ultimately destroyed him and the whole family around kirkland thank you for. After failing his classes egon schiele was sent to a new school in close to annoy book in 1000 or 2 at the age of 12 he now only spend the weekends with his family in turin. But he continued to struggle at school and had to repeat a great for the 2nd time. In the years 19 no fool and 905 can live with the hosts next family. Their son peter was a renowned doctor and researcher in the field of radiology. The mysterious images illuminating the in the workings of the human body captivated 14 year old egon a fascination that resurfaces in his. Disproved. Back then very few people had access to x. Ray images they were exclusively available to specialists they could be projected in a lecture hall via an epi di a scope that was possible but they werent widely viewed by the public like they are today. So there was very little Public Awareness about x. Rays. And its likely that his personal relationship with holtz connect was formative for sheila its. Because it gave him this Privileged Access to x. Rays and. She was primary focus was on composition he left interpretation to others hands are an important means of expression and feature prominently in sheilas work but despite countless interpretation attempts their message remains an enigma. Perhaps clues to their meaning can be found at viennas crime museum a place packed with eerie and sinister exhibits and fascinating records of hands that could lead us back to take on sheila. It isnt looking at this place what i have here in front of me is whats known as a criminals album. Such albums were put together to document the mug shots of sentenced criminals being held in city jails. In. The comedian hands of course have always played a major role in criminal investigations. As hans can have telling markings. And rationale for. The 10 smith for instance will have conspicuous marks on his thumbs from constantly pressing down on the metal. And a cobbler will have marks on the balls of islam from holding a shoe hammer. The so different criteria served as identifying features home and. Hands in various positions feature prominently in these photos really does she and it cant be ruled out that sheila was influenced by this defining feature of criminal record photography to feel full to conservation of numbing kissing. After his fathers death she then moved with his mother to vienna in 1006 to live with his well situated maternal uncle and guardian check. Also a Railway Official he allowed his 16 year old nephew to rent his 1st studio. His uncle check was a member of the n. S. Patrician class with its policies and music. His lifestyle made a lasting impression on. The family agreed to allow it go on to drop out of school and pursue a career as an artist she did took the entrance examination to the academy of fine arts and passed with distinction in october 906 at the age of 16 he became its youngest student sheila. Ways too smart and too fast for the academy and very often the teacher would give. Long assignments you know of a project that they would have several hours to work on and he would come in at the last minute and do it you know 1015 minutes what the other students had been working on for hours. Very very quickly. Outgrew the cademy and of course his professor creep in carol hated air for that because he didnt listen he had his ma and and. Someone who was such an upstart was a Bad Influence for the other students as well she was frustrated by the academys conservative as. He left the school in 99 without a diploma and founded the noise all new group with other dissatisfied students. There exhibitions attracted interest among those impressed by the 19 year olds personal style was cool stuff. This seemingly trivial and basic watercolor of a new girl is probably one of the most revolutionary works from the start of a great career lots of that scene painted in 1010 its part of the now largely lost series for the us the subject was sheilas 15 year old sister getty dollars and he probably had to choose her because he couldnt afford other models. Hes nice and called. The totally unnatural coloring the billy is green and yellow in the face the blood red stumps that we see here they mark the birth of expressionism and use. The artist has dared to defy the law of imitation the subject itself breaks taboos its depiction of the exposed genitals stops at nothing but this is not pornography to be looked at in secret sort of speak. So no its a work of art indeed its a key piece not only of early austrian expressionism but also of a gun she was entire. So. Even. Today she exhibitions dont come with signs barring admittance for girls and young women as they did in the us as late as the 970. 00 s. But how is this charged as it is with Erotic Energy sieved by the public today can modern sensibilities stomach sheilas sexually explicit work hard trying to. Explain have no problem with explicit depictions. I think its good if theres a place in society where such things can be addressed and shown. There is a place for open and sensible discourse. Where the full emotional impact of such things can be experienced and confronted. But there are 2 things that must be stressed. Today we have a different awareness and where the justified requirements of Child Protection are concerned we must of course be careful what we show. On the other hand artists not only have a right but also a duty to address taboos and invite social discourse and she looks great merit is that along with Sigmund Freud both incidentally from vienna he brought the sexuality of children in adolescence up out of the subconscious and depicted it for all to see. In 110 she wrote to his friend anton pashka. To leave vienna very soon everyone envies me and conspires against me the city is black and everything follows rules i want to be alone i want to go to the b. He me in forest he was yearning for a place called kumo is the doctor stuff sheena referred to attest the dead city and in fact it was. The german population had been expelled and young czechs didnt want to live in the Old Town Center theyd built new houses on the outskirts. Is the town was entirely empty cats roam the streets and it was just one house that was fit to serve as accommodation Everything Else was barricaded there were trees growing from attics the town was dead. I see the dead city as a key painting to understanding all his unrelated isnt thoughts. It appears dreamlike as if the town were rising up from a river. Of but its dead theres no one in it. He repeatedly painted a part of the old town with a birds eye view from the console not from the tower but from a long passageway from where if you look down you see exactly this part of the tunnel. You can still see almost every building today you can see this house this house in this house and this long table. Painted what he saw but he was shaped it to reflect his own sensibilities. And ask you for. The tell that was called como back then is modern day cesky croom loft in the Czech Republic it was his mothers birthplace which she had often visited with his family as a child. It was those never fading childhood memories that gave him a powerful sense of belonging. She was landscapes of komal convey that to the viewer. Its clear this is where he wanted to live and work. In kumar how fast ali. Everyone in crewe malnutrition and his from vienna was coming. Back then a criminal had only 7000 inhabitants and they all thought wow what a painter from vienna and who should turn up but a 20 year old youth accompanied by his girlfriend a beautiful young woman for whom they lived together they were married and friends from vienna also came like his colleagues from the academy anton peshitta but also artists like me muffin also a very eccentric man ix. On sundays the group would stroll through crewe mount to the main square is who. Im phone a lot and im hoping its about him they dressed unconventionally she laughed parent we always wore a white suit in a white turret to have because they observed people well and made loud remarks about passers by which of course didnt go down well with the locals to follow him on that so i imagine that fairly soon they got a brother chilly reception and people hadnt yet seen what he was painting. Was told. Valley north syria was a loyal companion bus her relationship with iran she there was complicated. Though he would later leave her to marry up in society his portraits are testimony to a deeply felt connection was. You must be very very noisy correct vyborg a noisy. Only rowdy the artists life companion and his girl friday. What do you mean by that now it depended on the situation and how he was feeling when he needed me i tried to help him. I was an encouraging her and often an overseer i kept an eye on the money to make sure that at least some was left over. And sometimes it was important to protect a gun from himself. And i was a guns favorite model thats how posterity knows me. And what about love you worry going to his lover for many years. Love love ego on. Be loved by ego and. If understanding someone or accepting them without the need for lots of questions and answers without asking why or what full means love then yes i love the. I was simply there for him it was single minded thing and his whole life was one deep feeling of rightness. There was never any Decision Making for him. He had a mission to fulfill and he came from somewhere or other from up there all down there. I come from a very ordinary actually whole circumstances i dont have a School Leaving certificate but neither did. He so they were not a lot of opportunities open to me i was lucky i didnt have to work just streets i earned my money as a model 1st with good stuff clint. Again i was lucky and never had a baby with him and he recommended me to eagle on and that turned into a love story between 2 very different people. And he more often when i gave him oranges which he loved so much he accepted them with that. I was and that was perfectly natural for him and he loved them and they belonged to him. Well i was part of a life that he loved so much. That life was shaken by his imprisonment in the town jail after he and valley moved to ny lang but it was a traumatic experience and the agony and angst i