His style is recognizable and made him well known in his own time. He lead a Viennese art movement at the turn of the 20th century, and inspired a young buck, Egon Schiele.
Egon's work was as expressive and shocking in its own day as it can still be today. Here's a self portrait:
Much of his work is, eh, risque? Sometimes called pornographic, his nudes are anything but boring.
When I noticed that he died at 28 years old, I thought WTF? Artists of his skill set and incendiary subject matter may flame out, and I was curious if that kind of end came into play with this dude.
A little research shed light on all of it.
Both and Egon and his mentor Gustav died in the influenza pandemic a century ago.
I started digging a little more. Walt Disney survived, but the Dodge brothers, the two guys who started the Dodge motor car company, both died. So did William Randolph Hearst's mom.
Things are going to get worse before they get better.
To end this (as I rush through in between work emails and family discussions) on a high note, I learned something: Grover Cleveland's sister, Libby Cleveland, did First lady duties during the first two years of his first term. How weird is that?
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