Minneapolis Institute of Art

Portrait of Franz Hauer

Egon Schiele

Date

1914

Medium

Drypoint on cream paper

Department

European Art

Institution

Minneapolis Institute of Art

Egon Schiele executed the plate for this print with great delicacy. His sinuous outlines recall the stylized mannerism of Lucas Cranach's portraiture. The cross-hatching along lines such as the furrowed brow of the sitter remind some of sutures, but they may equally tap into childhood memories of rag-doll companions. The exaggerated, idiosyncratic style and the alloy of playfulness and heart-wrenching sensitivity are unmistakably that of Schiele in his maturity. Austria, Europe

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