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150th birthday - Austria / II. Republic of Austria 1990 - 5 Shilling

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150th birthday - Austria / II. Republic of Austria 1990 - 5 Shilling


Theme: Art & Culture
CountryAustria / II. Republic of Austria
Issue Date1990
Face Value5.00 
Colormulti-colored blue
Printing Typecombination printing
Stamp TypeCommemorative
Item TypeStamp
Chronological Issue Number1335
Chronological ChapterOOS-OE2
SID67209
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Egon Schiele is considered the main representative of Austrian Expressionism. Born on June 12, 1890, the son of a railroad official in Tulln, he passed the entrance examination at the Vienna Art Academy in 1806. He was strongly influenced by Gustav Klimt and throughout his life felt connected to the graphical surface art of the Vienna Secession. The confrontation with sexuality in his pictures, which are dominated by erratic contours with hard, angular breaks, was misunderstood by the bourgeois world of his time. The sad climax of this misunderstanding of his surroundings was his arrest in April 1912, on suspicion of kidnapping a girl, and his consequent condemnation for indecent drawings, which earned him 24 days in prison. At the age of 28, on October 31, 1918, the artist died of the flu in Vienna rampant in Spain.

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Egon Schiele is considered the main representative of Austrian Expressionism. Born on June 12, 1890, the son of a railroad official in Tulln, he passed the entrance examination at the Vienna Art Academy in 1806. He was strongly influenced by Gustav Klimt and throughout his life felt connected to the graphical surface art of the Vienna Secession. The confrontation with sexuality in his pictures, which are dominated by erratic contours with hard, angular breaks, was misunderstood by the bourgeois world of his time. The sad climax of this misunderstanding of his surroundings was his arrest in April 1912, on suspicion of kidnapping a girl, and his consequent condemnation for indecent drawings, which earned him 24 days in prison. At the age of 28, on October 31, 1918, the artist died of the flu in Vienna rampant in Spain..