Egon Schiele, Mujer sentada con la pierna doblada, 1917
 Národni Galarie, Praga.

Klimt / Schiele review – their obsessions were mutual

Royal Academy, London
Ferociously brilliant young Egon Schiele and established master Gustav Klimt share the spotlight in this compelling Viennese double bill

Laura Cumming

Sunday 4 November 2018 

Egon Schiele drew Gustav Klimt many times in life, but also in death. Three drawings exist of Klimt in the morgue, his handsome face deformed by a massive stroke at the age of 55. Not many months later, Schiele himself was carried off by Spanish flu in the space of three devastating days. He was 28. Both men died in Vienna in the year 1918.