Despite largely failing as a student at school and having to repeat a year, his artistic talent gained him entry to the Kunstgewerbeschule (School of Arts and Crafts) in Vienna, where famous artist Gustav Klimt had studied. But one of his teachers there complained that Schiele had “too much talent” and he was sent to Vienna’s Academy of Fine arts, the youngest student ever enrolled there, at the age of 16. According to records he was accepted over another candidate — Adolf Hitler. But Schiele soon rankled at the conservatism of the Academy. In 1907 he sought out Klimt, whose work Schiele admired, hoping to learn more from the great … Continue reading Egon Schiele