With the exhibition Changing Times. Egon Schiele's Last Years: 1914–1918, the Leopold Museum in Vienna presented more than 100 works from Austrian and international collections that illuminated Schiele’s artistic development during his last years - a period of profound personal and stylistic transformation. From 1914 onwards, Schiele gradually moved away from the radical formal experiments of 1910 to 1914 and developed a more natural mode of expression marked by greater empathy. His line became calmer, more fluid and organic, while his figures gained in presence and physicality.
Highlights of the exhibition included his unfinished masterpiece “Portrait of Albert Paris von Gütersloh”, four previously unknown works on paper, as well as rare contemporary documents. Particularly noteworthy was the unpublished diary of Edith Schiele, which offered fresh insights into this decisive phase of his oeuvre.
We were delighted to contribute to this important exhibition with loans - among them the drawing “Edith with Hat and Veil” (1915).
