Abstrahierter Giebel hinter einem Zaun 1918

Egon Schiele made this watercolour drawing called 'Abstracted Gable behind a Fence' sometime before 1918. It's a landscape distilled to basic shapes and colours: a white triangle, a red sky, and a blue and green foreground. Schiele doesn’t so much represent a scene as evoke a feeling, a mood. I'm interested in how the saturated watercolour seeps into the paper, creating soft edges and subtle gradations. Look at the fence, it is made of broken blue lines, just enough to suggest a barrier without fully defining it. This sense of incompleteness, of things left unsaid, is what makes the piece so haunting. The colours are so bold, yet the mood is melancholic. This reminds me of the work of Emil Nolde, who also used intense colours and simplified forms to express a sense of inner turmoil. Schiele invites us to see the world not as it is, but as it feels.