The SCHIELE AWARD is an art prize that will be awarded every two years starting in 2022 and offers artists a forum to present their work to a wider audience. At the birthplace of Egon Schiele, the ROTARY CLUB TULLN seeks to promote contemporary artistic practices in discourse with contemporary issues, while at the same time providing humanitarian aid in accordance with its social principles.

Through the SCHIELE AWARD, the ROTARY CLUB TULLN seeks the engagement of artists from or living in Austria in the discussion of contemporary issues.

The prize is endowed with EUR 10,000.00. Works nominated by a top-class jury will be part of a sales exhibition and/or final auction.

„Art cannot be modern, art is eternal“
[Egon Schiele, 1912]

Egon Schiele is one of the most extraordinary artistic personalities of Viennese modernism. His expressive art has lost none of its fascination to this day.

Schiele was born in 1890 in Tulln on the Danube and spent the first 15 years of his life here. He died of the Spanish flu at the height of his artistic success at the age of only 28. In his short creative period, the artist produced a body of work that set a trend for posterity. Egon Schiele never abandoned figurative modes of representation. The figure, the human body was of great importance to him. At the center of his artistic interest was the reflection of his own existence, which Schiele expressed in countless self-portraits, but also in land- and cityscapes. From the aesthetics of the Fin de Siècle, Egon Schiele expressed the emergence of a new era. How are these dynamics negotiated artistically from today’s perspective?

We cordially invite you to make your contribution to this discourse.

EGON SCHIELE – his person, his work from a contemporary point of view …

within the framework of the SCHIELE AWARD. Terms and conditions for participation can be found in the call for submission below.