Egon Schiele was born on June 12, 1890 to Marie and Adolf Eugen Schiele in Tulln, a small town on the Danube in Lower Austria. Adolf was a high official of the Royal Empirial Railway Company. Of the six children of the marriage, only three survived infancy. Egon grew up alongside his sisters Melanie and Gertrude. Schiele attended elementary school at Tulln and then transferred to the Real-gymnasium in Krems. After some time, his lack of improvement …showed first 75 words of 939 total…

…showed last 75 words of 939 total…where Schiele exhibited in the main hall and for which he had designed the poster, brought him great success. During the last year of his life he also had successful shows in Zurich, Prague, and Dresden. At the end of 1918, the influenza epidemic that claimed over twenty million lives worldwide reached Vienna. Edith, who was six months pregnant, succumbed to it on October 28th, followed three days later by Egon. He was twenty-eight years old.