gon Schiele was an Austrian painter who lived at the end of the 19th century and died at the very beginning of the 20th. He was a very provocative artist and sexually deviant himself. His work is intense yet serene, intimate yet ambiguous, indulgent yet simple. He died at the age of 28, from the Spanish Flu, but created some of the most sublime works of art in existence during his short life. He once said that "no erotic work of art is filth if it is artistically significant; it is only turned into filth through the beholder if [they are] filthy." Take a look.

Lovers - Self-Portrait With Wally, c. 1914 – 1915

Mother and Child, 1908

Woman, 1917

Totes Mädchen, 1910

Self Portrait as Saint Sebastian, 1914

Reclining Female Nude, 1917

The Family, 1918