Lecture: “Egon Schiele and Austrian art of the early 20th century”

27 October 2025, 12.00

We invite you to a lecture from the Decades with Art series, which will be devoted to the work of Egon Schiele and Austrian art at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries.

The lecture will introduce the work of one of the most distinctive Austrian artists of the early 20th century – Egon Schiele. It will also discuss the broader context of Austrian art at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. Dr Małgorzata Jędrzejczyk will talk about the sources of Schiele's aesthetics, his relationship with Gustav Klimt and the Vienna Secession, as well as the importance of reflections on physicality and death and questions of an existential nature for his painting.

The event will commemorate the exhibition “Egon Schiele in Krakow” (11 December 1996–30 January 1997), also presenting Schiele's place in the history of Central European art. It will recall the controversies surrounding the work of the prematurely deceased artist and discuss his unique style of painting, recalling the evocative, emotionally charged and predatory nudes, portraits and landscapes of the Austrian artist.  

Lecture from the series “Decades with Art”.

The meeting will be held online via the Zoom platform.

Participation in the lecture is free of charge.

To receive a link to the meeting, please send your application to: warsztaty@mck.krakow.pl

The lecture will be held in Polish.

Dr. Małgorzata Jędrzejczyk – art historian, curator. Studied art history at Jagiellonian University, Universität Wien and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Graduate of the interdisciplinary study program Environment-Technology-Society (UJ). Author of scholarly articles on 20th century art and architecture and publications in exhibition catalogs and journals. Co-editor of an anthology of “image/body texts” and publication “Composing Space. Sculptures of the avant-garde”. Co-author and curator of the artistic and scientific program “Exercising Modernity” (Pilecki-Institut Berlin). As part of her doctoral thesis being prepared at the Institute of Art History at the Jagiellonian University, she is conducting research on the concept of space in the work of Katarzyna Kobro.

The series is under the auspices of the magazine “Głos Seniora”.