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Exhibitions

Egon Schiele at the Courtauld: a one-note samba of spindly limbs, nipples and pudenda

The Viennese artist painted most of the works in this exhibition when he was just 20 - and it shows

8 November 2014

9:00 AM

8 November 2014

9:00 AM

Egon Schiele: The Radical Nude

Courtauld Gallery, until 18 January 2015

One day, as a student — or so the story goes — Egon Schiele called on Gustav Klimt, a celebrated older artist, and showed him a portfolio of drawings with the abrupt query, ‘Do I have talent?’ Klimt looked at them, then answered, ‘Much too much!’ One gets an inkling of what Klimt was getting at from the feverishly intense work on show in Egon Schiele: The Radical Nude.

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