Egon Schiele (1890-1918) was an Austrian Expressionist painter and draftsman, whose reputation increased greatly through the years. Egon Schiele was born in 1890 in Lower Austria as the third child in his family. His father was a rail-road civil...

For an artist who died in 1918, Egon Schiele remains remarkably up to date. New York critics excoriated his most recent retrospective there as pornographic, exploitative and sexist, with one reviewer going so far as to label the Austrian expressionist's paintings "witchy kitsch." So,...

Egon Schiele (1890-1918) was a leading figure of second-generation Viennese modernism. Appreciated in his time as an extraordinary draughtsman, he was also notorious for the blatant eroticism of his young female nudes and the ruthless honesty of his tortured self-portraits. A historically informed psychoanalytic...

Room with a view We were talking last week to Horst Rechelbacher, the founder of Aveda, about the $4.3m penthouse apartment he just bought at his One Fifth Avenue co-op. "The view here is Heaven," exclaimed Mr. Rechelbacher, referring to his wrap-around porch. "Heaven...

Two Israeli institutions are battling for custody of an unclaimed collection of artwork plundered by the Nazis _ a dispute over who best represents the victims of the Holocaust and their descendants.The Israel Museum, repository of such national treasures as the Dead Sea Scrolls, has...