About the Record of the Sketch of me

I was looking for something interesting, and I sit and wonder what I want to do which reflects today's current problem which is the coronavirus.  I did a search on the internet about an artist (Egon Schiele)  who died of the Spanish Flu of 1918-1919.  It was interesting to know that he was a soldier at that time when he and his wife passed away from the Spanish virus.  That was common knowledge that the soldiers spread the flu all over the world.  About 20 - 50 Million people died of this flu.  The biggest pandemic during the 20th Century.

Egon Schiele’s last work was a sketch of his wife Edith who had died from the Spanish flu, he died from the same disease only 3 days later.  This was during World I ( 28 July 1914 - 11 November 1918).

Educational Value of Edith Schiele (Harms)

Married to Egon Schiele from 1915-1918. She was born in 1893 and died on 28 October 1918 in Vienna, Austria. She was the sister of Adele Harms ( birth date estimated between 1788-1908) and Egon Schiele used her as a model in his sketches.

Edith's family was a middle-class family and Protestant by faith; their father was a master locksmith.

Schiele chose to mary in 1915 Edith because she was socially acceptable, but apparently expected to maintain a relationship with Wally. When Egon discuss this with Wally she left him immediately and they never see each other again. Egon and Edith married on 17 June 1915 on the anniversary of the wedding of Schiele’s parents.

In autumn of 1918, Edith died who was six months pregnant with the Spanish flu pandemic that claimed more than 20 million people in Europe. Egon died three days later and in that three days he draws a few sketches of Edith; these were his last works.

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