**Female n*de.**

**Female n*de.**

Egon Schiele - Standing female nude with blue cloth, 1914.

German Expressionism placed subjective feelings above observation and reflected the social and psychological turmoil of the time.

Sexual directness and brutal honesty are characterized in Egon Schiele's tortured, sharp pencil drawing.

Schiele breaks with the influence of Gustav Klimt, who as a far more decorative artist and symbolist was also criticized for being too sensual and erotic, in order to reflect the sexual anxiety that dramatists like Strindberg and Ibsen uncovered in the bourgeois consciousness in "Miss Julie" and "A Doll's House".