Leopold Museum | lost Schiele painting & a new NFT collection
To celebrate the discovery of a lost painting by Egon Schiele, the Leopold Museum has created a unique new NFT collection.
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To celebrate the discovery of a lost painting by Egon Schiele, the Leopold Museum has created a unique new NFT collection.
Portrait last seen in 1930 will go on display in Vienna and also be part of a non-fungible tokens collection
A painting by a 16-year-old Egon Schiele, which was thought lost for decades, has been found in Vienna and will be turned into an NFT.
Egon Schiele's Erwin Dominik Osen, Nude with Crossed Arms (1910) ©Leopold Museum/ Manfred Thumberger A gaunt man with crooked limbs turns towards us, rosy lips parted, emerald eyes fringed with lashes. Beneath his scrubby facial hair, his cheeks and chin are stained a lemon yellow. His hands look raw, like they have been peeled; two fingers have turned a mouldy green, as if fighting infection. He is Erwin Osen, companion and model to the Austrian Expressionist Egon Schiele, who created this work in 1910. In fact, Osen was an artist too, and a tightly focused exhibi...