Egon Schiele, 1915
Portrait of Edith Schiele with Striped Dress, Sitting
Edith Harms was three years older than Egon Schiele and lived across the street from the artist’s studio in Vienna with her sister Adéle and her middle-class protestant parents. Schiele was exactly the sort of neighbor middle-class protestant parents hate—he'd been to jail for creating pornographic art, was known to have seduced a minor, and was shacked up his muse and model Wally Neuzil who was a suspected prostitute. read more