Germany’s advisory commission on Nazi-looted art also recommended the return of a painting by Erich Heckel to the heirs of Jewish journalist Max Fischer.
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Man Finds Authentic Egon Schiele Drawing in New York City Thrift Store
The shopper, a part-time art handler, found a 1918 Schiele pencil drawing in a Habitat for Humanity thrift store in Queens. The finding is valued at more than $100,000.
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Egypt to Sue Christie’s Auction House After Sale of King Tut Bust
Plus, heirs of an Austrian cabaret singer win a lawsuit over Nazi-looted Egon Schiele drawings, and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts adds 111 works to its permanent collection.
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A Gallery’s Eight Decades of Artistic Independence
Now celebrating its 80th anniversary, Manhattan’s Galerie St. Etienne brings a scholarly approach to a uniquely diverse lineup.
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Egon Schiele’s Impudent Offspring
Tracing Egon Schiele’s lineage, forward and backward in time.
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Egon Schiele’s Quivering Line Tells All
An exhibition full of drawings shines light on the history of the line in this artist’s work.
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Nostalgia and Reality in Picasso, Schiele, and Klimt
The drawings of Klimt and Schiele, in contrast to those of Picasso, are graphic evidence of an artist grappling with what is directly in front of him.
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Art by Klimt, Schiele, and Picasso Laid Bare for New Exhibition at Met Breuer
On display at the Met Breuer are the nude drawings, watercolors, and prints by Klimt, Schiele, and Picasso. This will be the first time these pieces have been on display together.
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Egon Schiele’s God of Desire
Schiele’s hometown is commemorating the centennial of his untimely death.
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Missing Klimt Drawing Found in the Closet of a Former Museum Secretary
In the 1960s, a museum secretary noticed a discrepancy in the institution’s record-keeping of loaned artworks; her boss gave her a Klimt drawing to keep her mouth shut.
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The Essential Egon Schiele
Any dissonance between the spiritual and the sexual does not seem to have occurred to Schiele: one was a manifestation of the other, for good or ill.