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1916, Egon Schiele, Decaying Mill (Mountain Mill) -- Leopold Museum (Vienna) [special exhibition]
From the museum label: In 1916 Schiele completed only nine paintings, including this unusually detailed depiction of an old mill on the Erlauf River near Mühling, which he began painting in an almost objective, reportorial style on June 1. He had discovered the abandoned, moss-covered building while out on a walk with Edith. In September he described it as "probably [my] best landscape." The motif can also be seen as symptomatic of the times: like the turbulent political situation, the surging mass of water seems on the verge of destroying the dilapidated mill. Symbolic representations of impermanence, life and death, but also of constant renewal, appear frequently in Schiele's work.
1916, Egon Schiele, Decaying Mill (Mountain Mill) -- Leopold Museum (Vienna) [special exhibition]
From the museum label: In 1916 Schiele completed only nine paintings, including this unusually detailed depiction of an old mill on the Erlauf River near Mühling, which he began painting in an almost objective, reportorial style on June 1. He had discovered the abandoned, moss-covered building while out on a walk with Edith. In September he described it as "probably [my] best landscape." The motif can also be seen as symptomatic of the times: like the turbulent political situation, the surging mass of water seems on the verge of destroying the dilapidated mill. Symbolic representations of impermanence, life and death, but also of constant renewal, appear frequently in Schiele's work.