Hiderig the artist is a crime, wrote Ego Schiele i 1912. At the time he was i priso for dissemiatig immoral drawigs. Throughout his work the ote of defiace, provocatio, ad rebellio was souded. Schiele's favorite subjects were female udes ad self-portraits, ad he worked at his art with furious commitmet, though it was ot util shortly before his early death that he bega to wi real recogitio. Today, with Oskar Kokoschka, he is see as the most importat of the Austria artists who came after Klimt. This study examies the life ad work of Ego Schiele through all the major oil paitigs ad may of his erotic drawigs.