Field Landscape

• Egon Schiele (1890–1918)
• 1914
• Pencil on paper
• Leopold Museum, Vienna

An expansive field stretches across the work. Each patch of the field stands out from the other with tight pencil lines that fill out the form and gives the impression of an abstract structure. On the left foreground, two isolated fields are placed behind houses, like a cipher. This work clearly illustrates the distinctive quality of Schiele’s lines and his emphasis on geometric forms.