Description
Egon Schiele – Calvary, 1912
The hand-painted Egon Schiele painting Calvary is an oil reproduction of a work from 1912. The original is held by the Leopold Museum in Vienna.
A hill that fills the canvas
The lower two thirds are taken up by a bare, rolling hill in planes of brown, ochre and muted green. There is no path, no figure, no flight of steps — only earth, laid on in broad wet strokes that bleed into bluish patches towards the edges.
Crosses on the ridge
Three crosses stand on the ridge itself: a red one at the left, a dark one with a crossbar in the middle, and a black one beside it. A low rock sits next to them. The scene is set so far off that no face is visible — Schiele painted Calvary as a landscape, not as a narrative.
A sky in bands
Above the ridge the sky breaks into horizontal bands of white, blue, grey and sudden red. They are laid on like ribbons, one above the other, and they give the quiet hill an abrupt restlessness.
Stakes and saplings
A row of thin bare saplings runs along the ridge, each beside its own coloured stake — red, blue, green. At the right a small wayside shrine rises with a triangular roof.
Technique and format of the original
The original is painted in oil on canvas, in the near-square format 80 × 81.7 cm (inv. Inv. 480), and hangs today in the Leopold Museum in Vienna.
Our hand-painted oil reproduction
Our painter works the reproduction by hand in oil on canvas, in the size you choose. Before delivery you receive a photograph of the painting for approval.
