Harbour of Trieste, 1907
Hafen von Triest
Egon Schiele
Oil and pencil on card, 25 x 18cm
Egon Sciele was not slow to take advantage of the free rail travel he enjoyed as a railwayman's son. When he was seventeen, he and his sister Gerti, four years his junior, went to Trieste, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. His oil sketch of the harbour features the arabesque decorativeness characteristic of the Art Nouveau.











