Grete Wolf 1913

Egon Schiele made this drawing of Grete Wolf with graphite, and the image feels like a fleeting thought, quickly captured. Schiele's artmaking was a process of translating his inner world onto paper, emphasizing raw emotion and psychological depth. The textures here are really something: a dark, scribbled frenzy of graphite creates dense, almost oppressive shapes, but then he leaves areas of the paper bare, breathing space. Look at the upper mass – it’s like a storm cloud rendered in charcoal, each stroke adding to the feeling of unrest. Below, the delicate lines suggest a figure, hesitant and fragile. It's a study in contrasts, this drawing, and it's less about depicting Grete Wolf literally and more about capturing a mood, a feeling. You could see some echoes of Edvard Munch here, both artists diving into the deep end of human emotion. But Schiele's mark-making feels more urgent, more immediate, a raw nerve exposed.