Egon Schiele 1890 1918 is nowadays regarded as one of the leading pioneers of Modernism in Austria. Although he already enjoyed some success during his lifetime and came to be considered Austrias greatest artist following his death his outstanding impo rtance for art was recognized only in the early 1950s. Rudolf Leopold the early collector of Schiele who first became interested in Schiele in the 1950s has been instrumental in raising the international profile of Egon Schiele. Today his art tr