Talk:Egon Schiele

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[edit] dystonia

can anybody actually confirm this assertion that schiele had dystonia? i was able to find one article from a medical journal which mentioned the painter's being afflicted, but only in passing and with no corroborating evidence. all the other hits i got doing a simple google search were copied off wiki. if schiele did have dystonia, this is relatively new knowledge, as none of the well-known monographs from the 1980s and 1990s mention this condition. it represents a fairly new take on the painter if he actually had to move his body in that spasmolytic manner; given the unprecedented nature of this assertion it would be good to have citations/references of some kind ---- —Preceding unsigned comment added by User: Dionysian_kat (talk • contribs)

There is no mention whatsoever of dystonia in the major biographies of Schiele: Frank Whitford, Alessandra Comini, Jane Kallir. Mick gold 09:19, 27 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Colbert Report

On a recent episode of the Colbert Report featuring Andrew Keen, Keen claimed "even the Nazis didn't put people out of work", to which Colbert responded with "what about Egon Schiele"?

Given that Schiele died in 1918, does anybody know what Colbert could have been talking about? Given the pictures I've seen here, I would expect Schiele's art to have been classified as Entartete Kunst, so he would have been repressed were he still alive. But they can't very well put him out of work if he'd been dead for 25 years! --Saforrest 05:07, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

The Cobert Report is parody or fake news and doesn't have to make sense, it only has to make money. Probably the writers meant Mucha. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.179.30.13 (talk) 07:38, 2 March 2008 (UTC)