Leopold Czihaczek at the Piano, Egon Schiele (1907)
Leopold Czihaczek at the Piano was painted shortly before Schiele’s 17th birthday. It is impressionist in style, with a muted palette characteristic of his early work.
Czihaczek became Schiele’s legal guardian after the death of Schiele’s father when the artist was 15. He is depicted in the painting as a bourgeois figure and man of culture – an ode to the role he was to play in the young artist’s life.
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