Seated Woman with Bent Knee (Adele Herms) by Egon Schiele, 1910 Size:(A2) Large devotion to duty and skill

devotion to duty and skill in battle

Taken: November 1918Location: Parliament Square

Stir and Strain

is another Egon Schiele trademark – he often performed facial gymnastics in self-portraits and encouraged his models to pull playful

Seated Woman with Bent Knee (Adele Herms) by Egon Schiele, 1910 Size:(A2) Large devotion to duty and skillABOUT THIS PAINTING Most people who admire the work of Egon Schiele are familiar with this iconic portrait, one of the young artists most famous and certainly one of his most intriguing. As a student, I was sent this artwork as a postcard, and had it taped to my wall at university, and would look at it every day. I never thought to ask then, what the models name might be, what her relationship to the artist might be, and why she was posing in that