Self-Portrait with Physalis, 1912
Egon Schiele
A gaunt, wiry self-portrait ringed by a papery orange lantern plant.
Schiele twists to face us, hair spiking, a physalis plant curling around him in sharp Viennese design. His nervy line and raw self-scrutiny made him one of Expressionism's most electric talents — this is among his most striking self-portraits.
What you're looking at
He is off-centre and cropped at the shoulder, with a wide field of plain ground beside him doing nothing — a compositional choice that looks like a photograph badly framed on purpose. The physalis lanterns curl in on their own thin stems, drawn with the same nervous line as his hair. It is small, on panel, and painted the year he spent time in a cell.
On a Frame TV
About 5:4, so the matted file. The empty ground beside the figure is load-bearing and a tighter crop kills it. Pale background with sharp dark line; it reads well in most light.
- 4K master file (3840px+)
- Samsung Frame TV–ready crop
- Phone wallpaper crop
- Printable art card
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