Egon Schiele is well-known all over the world. His most famous drawings and paintings are among the best in the world. He was an Austrian painter who lived for under thirty years between the finish of 1800 and the start of 1900. He was also one of the few artists who had the bravery to exhibit both himself and his work, despite the risks associated with living in an overly conservative society.

“To restrict the artist is a crime. It is to murder germinating life.” Egon Schiele

When people read Schiele’s story, it’s often hard to understand how he managed to have his iconic artistic career, deep relationship with Wally, marriage to Edith, and imprisonment all in 28 years. when you say “a life that is intense.” renowned for the sincere depiction of erotism in his paintings; There are thousands of his paintings and drawings in the collection, and their auction prices almost always exceed the maximum estimated value stated at the start of the auctions. However, the thread that holds his morbid paintings together is his pornographic vein, which society uses to denigrate him. This is not surprising considering that his paintings frequently depict his sexual liberation, which for many people still requires a lifetime. His works resemble the touches of a sweet whore, while she makes sense of you what love is.  

Egon Schiele‘s legend

“ I was in love with everything- I wanted to look with love at the angry people so that their eyes would be forced to respond; and I wanted to bring gifts to the envious and tell them that I am worthless.”  Egon Schiele

What’s more, where he saw love in all things, not set in stone to subdue their natural well established motivations, saw sexual entertainment. According to legend, Egon Schiele’s artistic career began when his masters, seeing that he lacked talent, locked him up in a room with a mattress, two buckets—one for water and one for his needs—a pile of white sheets, and a lot of objects. The only instructions from his master were: – “You won’t leave this room until you have drawn everything here.” He was imprisoned for a full month and a half without having any contact with the outside world, thereby conclusively securing his love-art pact. Actually, this is not a legend at all; rather, it is a portion of Lewis Crofts’ fictionalized biography “The pornographer of Vienna,” which tells the first-person account of Egon Schiele’s life: his sexual discoveries, his lonely childhood at the bottom of a cantonal house, the beginning of erotica, his first drawings with coal, and his imprisonment

“Bodies have their own light which they consume to live: they burn, they are not lit from the outside.”  Egon Schiele

In order to allow you to enjoy your journey one discovery at a time, we have gathered all of his most erotic drawings here while leaving the carmine hues of his paintings for the following article. If you like these marvelous drawings, I cannot suggest you enough a beautiful book called: “Gustav Klimt: drawings and watercolors. This is a superior collection for the lowest price”