Egon Schiele

Known for: Viennese Expressionist figurative drawing and painting

Egon Schiele studied at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts under Gustav Klimt's influence before developing a radically personal figurative style — angular, emaciated bodies, harsh line, confrontational eroticism — that had no real predecessor in European painting. He was imprisoned in 1912 for 24 days after some of his drawings were found obscene. He died in the influenza pandemic of 1918 at 28, three days after his pregnant wife.