Egon Schiele studied at the Academy of Fine Art in Vienna until the vexingly straitlaced conservatism of the staff served as the impetus to pack his bags and check out. The fact that one of his most steadfast advocates upon deciding to leave the Academy was Gustav Klimt might be worth mentioning.
He went on to form the Neukunstgruppe, or New Art Group, for similarly vexed students. His work, among other things, combines startlingly disfigured human forms, unfettered sexuality, and the relentless contemplation of death. He died, well before his time, at 28, just months after Klimt.
His work can be found in New York at the Neue Galerie and (the bulk of it) in Vienna, at the Leopold Museum.
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