Artnet

Schiele’s Male Nudes, Long Thought to Be Self-Portraits, May Have Actually Depicted Gay Models

New scholarship has found that Egon Schiele’s male nudes from 1910, known as his “Red Men,” are not, as has long been assumed, self portraits. Instead, they most likely depict the artist’s gay friends ...
Artnet

The Art Institute of Chicago Refuses to Turn Over Contested Schiele Drawing

The Art Institute of Chicago has refused to turn over a drawing by Egon Schiele to New York investigators, according to a document filed in a New York Supreme Court this week. In the robust 132-page ...
The New York Times

When the Wild Child Egon Schiele Grew Up

Some of the artist’s most psychologically insightful work came in the final years of his life — a mature period cut short by a pandemic. By Nina Siegal On Oct. 27, 1918, Egon Schiele sketched his wife ...
The New York Times

Judge Awards Schiele Drawing to Heirs of Merchant Killed by the Nazis

The drawing of Schiele’s wife was the focus of a trial at which three parties, all with Jewish roots, argued whether it had been looted by the Nazis and from whom. By Colin Moynihan and Tom Mashberg ...
The Art Newspaper

Two more Egon Schiele works restituted to heirs of Holocaust victim will head to auction

Two works by Egon Schiele were returned Friday (19 January) to the heirs of the Austrian Jewish cabaret performer Fritz Grünbaum, from whose art collection the works were allegedly seized by Nazi ...
Hyperallergic

Painter, Interrupted: Losing Egon Schiele

Egon Schiele, “Wally in Red Blouse with Raised Knees” (1913), watercolor, gouache, and pencil. Private Collection (all images courtesy the Neue Galerie) Despite its inclusion of more than 130 works on ...
Hyperallergic

Egon Schiele’s Landscapes Tell a Winter’s Tale

Egon Schiele, "Town among Greenery (The Old City III)" (1917), oil on canvas; Neue Galerie New York (all images courtesy Neue Galerie New York unless otherwise noted) Egon Schiele could be a late ...
New York Post

Sotheby’s set to auction Egon Schiele paintings that may be Nazi loot

Two paintings with a combined value of nearly $10 million will hit the auction block Monday amid questions of whether they were looted by the Nazis from Jewish owners during the Third Reich, The Post ...
CNN

Seven intimate Egon Schiele artworks, looted by the Nazis from a Jewish art collector, are returned to his heirs

During a ceremony and press conference Wednesday in New York, seven drawings by the Austrian expressionist Egon Schiele were returned to the heirs of their former owner, Fritz Grünbaum, whose art ...
NPR

7 artworks by Egon Schiele are returned to heirs of the owner killed by Nazis

Works by Austrian artist Egon Schiele were returned to its heirs Wednesday in New York. The original owner was murdered by Nazis. It's one of the longest-running holocaust restitution cases. In New ...
The Art Newspaper

Egon Schiele was not a sex offender

The 100th anniversary of Egon Schiele’s death has arrived just in time for the #MeToo movement. Commemorative exhibitions are taking place this year in Moscow, Boston, Vienna, Paris, London, Liverpool ...