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The image depicts an intimate scene between two figures who are tightly embraced. One of the figures is wrapped in a cloth that partially emphasizes the body contours. The other figure appears to be in a protective embrace, resting its head against the other figure. Blurred human shapes can be seen in the background. The overall expression feels emotional and intense, with a clear focus on the relationship between the two main figures.

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Death and Maiden
Date1915

Artist Egon Schiele (1890 Tulln – 1918 Wien)

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Object typePainting
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions
150 × 180 cm
SignatureSign. und dat. rechts oben: EGON / SCHIELE / 1915
Inventory number3171
Location Upper Belvedere
Mortality and death are existential themes that Schiele ventured to address time and again—here associated with a biographical event. It shows a couple, the young woman clinging with both arms to her lover. The man, a self-portrait of Schiele, stares into space. The fragile balance—the artist is alluding to this in the figures’ unstable poses—seems as if it could shatter at any moment. The girl is his long-term partner and model Wally Neuzil. He had split up with her to marry Edith Harms, who was from a middle-class family. After their separation, Neuzil trained as a nurse. In 1917 she died of scarlet fever during her wartime deployment.

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1930 Ankauf Sezession, München

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