/internal/media/dispatcher/83174/fullThe Embrace1917[Egon Schiele]Egon SchieleOil on canvas Egon Schiele shows two lovers intimately embracing in an abstract space. Sprawled on a crumpled sheet, they cling to each other, while their lower bodies appear to be drifting apart. Schiele does not focus on a provocative display of nakedness. He dispenses with explicit poses and piercing gazes. Yet the bodies are still vehicles of inner states. Instead of the figures’ identities, the artist places universal themes at the heart of this depiction. Schiele’s image tells of desire and separation anxiety, tenderness and despair. Paintinghttps://sammlungtest.belvedere.at/objects/3232/rdf