Biography

1890

Egon Schiele is born on the 12th of June in Tulln, Austria

1906

Schiele is rejected from the “Wiener Kunstgewerbeschule” and begins to study at the Academy in Vienna

1907

Begin of the friendship with Gustav Klimt

1909

Schiele leaves the Academy and becomes a founding member of the “Neukunstgruppe”

1911

First solo-exhibition in a gallery in Vienna

Schiele becomes a member of the group “Sema”

1912

Takes part in multiple exhibitions, among them the “Blauer Reiter” and the “Viennese Secession”

1915

Breakup with his former partner and marriage with Edith Harms

1917

Schiele exhibits work in the “Kriegsausstellung 1917“

1918

Egon Schiele dies on the 31st of October in Vienna