Description
Egon Schiele – Self-Seers II (Death and Man), 1911
This hand-painted Egon Schiele painting, Self-Seers II (Death and Man), is an oil reproduction of the work he painted in 1911. The original is held by the Leopold Museum in Vienna.
The divided self
The Leopold Museum reads the work as a self-portrait of a self in crisis — an individual that has lost the security of being “indivisible”. Schiele breaks up the unity of the figure with a shadowy double: in front stands a closed-eyed, inward-turned figure in a dark robe, and behind it its pale revenant. A hand reaches into the scene from below that cannot be assigned to either form, and it is precisely this unattached hand that heightens the sense of dissociation.
The original’s medium and format
The original is oil on canvas, 80.5 × 80 cm (inv. 451) — a very nearly square canvas. It is signed “S. 11” at the lower left. The work was contributed to the Leopold Museum-Privatstiftung in 1994.
Our hand-painted oil reproduction
Our reproduction is hand-painted in oils on canvas and we paint it in the size you choose.
