biography
pronunciation:
[sheeluh]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1890–1918)
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| biography:
| Painter, born in Tulln, NE Austria. He studied at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts in 1906, met Klimt in 1907, and developed a powerful form of Expressionism in which figures, often naked and emaciated and drawn with hard outlines, fill the canvas with awkward, anguished gestures. In 1912 he was arrested, and some of his work was destroyed by the police. He died in the influenza epidemic of 1918. |
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