Yet on the show the people dont seek us dont have flaws they can feel it all but 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 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 and introspection or returned to ones inner self with this. Is a selfcritical modernism if you take the woman and it was this return to the self they gave modernist viennese art of power and an appeal to that other art movements were lacking northeasterly poke in 3 so most good is of no but. The real part museum in vienna houses the worlds most comprehensive collection of works by a gun see them. The Art Collective who began acquiring the Oil Paintings washes was a callous and drawings in the 1950 s. His passion for the austrian paint has served to revive interest in an artist who otherwise may well have been forgotten. I was and not just with an enormous practice i also had 3 children and a crazy husband and 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 was when doctors said she was well. Sheila sets the standard 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 selfsufficient 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 i think. She was 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 has pieces in a plot the 2 needed 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 nudes without questioning not just the artists stance on sexuality nudity and vulnerability but their own as well as it did. You find the right. Words. From. Me the emotional encounter with a gun she was working 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. Legend has it that never used any razor and needed very little time to produce a drawing sometimes no more than a few minutes. Right at this enormous energy. Was it an act of liberation and if so from what. The worlds leading experts on a go on sheila is jane kelly a 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 bend it and move it and distort it and make it tell a story and i think sheila 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 has 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 braces could be seen and felt in the apartment. And trains with the subject of young a guns 1st drawings. His father she was station monster in 2 and a key rail hub in the austriahungary an empire a hot tempered man he sensed his sons Exceptional Talent very early on. And if he thinks he says he did see this unit those one very revealing story is where having noticed how his son spent all his time drawing it off she loved one in 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. 8 of 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 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 8 of sheela would have taken his cue from his son and realized that what he was offering in terms of fostering a talent was nowhere near enough. d only 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 lives 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 getty im getting. I was born here in 1941. I make on this younger sister i think thats where he slept out of the 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 dished out before so much happened here. But i cant remember at all they say you and your brother and sister had a very comfortable life here the sylvias fried things owned 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 arguing. 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 my he lit a fire i heard him opening the stove door because often i got up it was the middle of the night 5 my father was burning stacks of paper i didnt know what exactly was out of this i only found out later that he burned all of our shareholdings so its far the glow from the fire fell on his face to. Face those scientists all the illuminated face of a father who had gone mad and was like to give out and fight us. How did you handle it did you talk to your brother about it i talk about it with him by then my brother was living in close tonight. We never discussed my father i saw him but look at work. That was his way of talking about it. Art historians spend a lot of time trying to decode she lives off an enigma and allegorical iconography. Is the key to his in a world. The art center in the small town of googling near vienna was once a Psychiatric Institute that used therapy 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 limits 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 contract the disease that ultimately destroyed him and the whole family around kirkland family 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 spent 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 9041905 he can live with the host next family. Their son peter was a renowned doctor and researcher in the field of radiology. The mysterious images illuminating the inner workings of the human body captivated 14 year old egon a fascination that resurfaces in his art. 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. Because it gave him this Privileged Access to x. Rays. She has primary focus was on composition the 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. 2 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 the 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 certain criminals being held in city jails. In. The. Hands of course have always played a major role in criminal investigations. As hans can have telling markings. And best of all. I should. Attend 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. And it cant be ruled out that sheila was influenced by this defining feature of criminal record photography to feel full to confirmation of long ago. After his fathers death sheila 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 was a member of the n. S. Patrician class with its policies and music. His life style met a lasting impression on. The family agreed to allow a gun to drop out of school and pursue a career as an artist sheila took the entrance examination to the academy of fine arts and passed with distinction in october 906. 00 at the age of 16 he became its youngest student. Shell have. 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 academy and of course his professor creep in carol hated air for that because he didnt listen he had his own mind and. Someone who was such an upstart was a Bad Influence for the other students as well sheila was frustrated by the academys conservatism. 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 1910 its part of the now largely lost series for the us the subject was sheilas 15 year old sister getty dollars for he probably had to choose her because he couldnt afford other models. Hes nice and cold. 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 he sells. Well 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 so to speak. So its 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 in that example even cheetah. Today she exhibitions dont come with signs barring admittance for girls and young women as they did in the us as late is the 1970 s. But how is this charged as it is with Erotic Energy to sieved by the public today can modern sensibilities stomachs sexually explicit work hard to form an expert i 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 was 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 lived wrote to his friend anton pashka. Until e. 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 and forest he was yearning for a place called kumo is the door to stop sheena referred to attest the dead city and in fact it was there when 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 is a key painting to understanding all his unreal ideas and thoughts. It appears dream like as if the town were rising up from a river. But stead 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 komal 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 lives landscapes of kumar 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 he had they lived together they were married and friends from vienna also came like his colleagues from the academy anton pashka but also artists like me muffin austin a very eccentric man. On sundays the group would stroll through croom out to the main square who. Form and i hope its about him they dressed unconventionally she loved parent we always wore a white suit and a white turn out to have because they observed people and made loud remarks about passers by which of course didnt go down well with the locals to follow. That so i imagine that fairly soon they got a brother chilly reception. And people hadnt yet seen what he was painting at ma. Oh i was told. Her valley north sea was a loyal companion but her relationship with egg on she that was complicated. Though he would later leave her to marry up in society his portraits are testimony to a deeply felt connection. You must be very very noisy correct vyborg annoys. Me ronnie the artists life companion and his girl friday. Morning i 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 encourager 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 helped posterity knows me. And what about love you were a gone schillers lover for many years love love ego and for be loved by egon. 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 dave on that. I was simply there for him ego was single minded. His home 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 oh down there. I come from very ordinary actually pull circumstances i dont have School Leaving certificate but neither did egan. So there were not a lot of opportunities open to me i was lucky i didnt have to work history 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 egon and that turned into a love story between 2 very different people. And him or her when i gave him oranges which he loved so much he accepted them with that and. I was and that was a 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 the ago