Egon Schiele Art Centrum
Renaissance former town brewery now housing watercolors and drawings by a scandal-hounded Viennese painter.
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This guide to the Egon Schiele Art Centrum in Český Krumlov opens in September 1911, when a young Viennese painter and his girlfriend Wally Neuzil, once a model for Gustav Klimt, moved into a rented cottage across the river. It follows the scandal that built as Schiele painted local teenage girls, the backlash from parents and clergy, and the fate of Willi Lidl, a young admirer expelled from school over a letter Schiele wrote in his defense. The building itself is a seventeenth-century brewery, raised by two master masons, that supplied the town's beer for three centuries.
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