Which scandal-ridden artist of the Austrian Expressionist movement painted this surprisingly tender self-portrait with his new wife in 1917?

Renowned for his angst-ridden, distorted and often explicitly sexual nudes, Schiele's Embrace represents a style shift in the artist's oeuvre. While the figures are rendered in a characteristically twisted form, their intertwined bodies and affectionate gestures convey a warm intimacy that his earlier work often lacked. Sadly, the new harmony that Schiele appeared to have found was short-lived. One year after completing Embrace in 1917, the Spanish Flu took his wife's life — and three days later, his own.

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