Dead City III
1911 · Oil on wood · Leopold Museum, Vienna
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About this work
- Artist
- Egon Schiele (1890–1918)
- Year
- 1911
- Medium
- Oil on wood
- Original size
- 37.3 × 29.8 cm
- Collection
- Leopold Museum, Vienna
- Movement
- Expressionism
A tight cluster of houses with brown, moss-coloured roofs and pale walls seems to float on a field of deep blue-black, a white gable rising at the top and washing hung between upper windows. There are no people. Schiele painted the small panel in 1911, looking down from the castle hill at Krumau (Český Krumlov), his mother's birthplace, where the old town crowds into a bend of the Vltava. He called it the picture with his most serious colours. The Leopold Museum, which holds it, reads the deserted town as an allegory of loneliness and isolation.
This exhibition-poster edition shows the whole work beneath original typography set in-house. The original is in the public domain.
Where it works
Brown roofs on a deep blue-black ground make a quiet, moody picture for a study, library or dim hallway. Pair it with Böcklin's Isle of the Dead at 12×18 in a black frame.
Style, size & framing detail
- Style
- Exhibition poster of a Expressionism painting
- Era
- 20th century (1911)
- Orientation
- Portrait
- Palette
- cream & beige
- Mood
- classic
- Rooms
- hallway or entryway, study or library, living room, dining room, dorm room
- Good gift for
- housewarming, art lovers
Size. We'd hang this one at 12×18. Prints at 12×18, 16×24, 24×36 in — 12×18 for a shelf, desk or a gallery-wall grid; 16×24 above a desk, console or in a hallway; 24×36 as the statement piece above a sofa or bed.
Framing. Exhibition posters sit best in a slim black frame with no mat — the typeset margin is the mat.
Pairing. Pairs as a set of three with other famous painting prints (10% off three or more).
Details & materials
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About this design
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A fine-art print
The same artwork as a clean fine-art print — the image shown large with a minimal caption.
