Egon Schiele was an Austrian painter born in 1890. Noticing his lack of academic talents, his uncle sent his to art school, where he met his mentor Gustav Klimt. Schiele's drawings explored the human form and sexuality, which frankly freaked the hell out of the people at the time. He was kicked out of his house in Vienna in 1911, along with his lover who was also his model, for getting teenage girls to pose for his pictures. In 1912 he was sent to jail for about three days for the same exact thing. In 1915 Schiele choose to marry the socially more accepted girl-across-the-street but still wanted to keep up with his current lover. She left him, and he got really depressed for awhile. When WWI started he was drafted but never fought in any battle 'cause his commanding officers appreciated his talent. In 1918 he died along with his wife from an epidemic of Spanish flu.
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