Nick Routledge@nick_routledge

Edith, wife to #EgonSchiele, died, six months pregnant, of the 1918 flu. He died three days after her and, in the time between her death and his, made paintings of her - his favorite muse. He was but 28.

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Quoted byPortrait of Edith Schiele, the artist's wife, 1915. #egonschiele