Virtually explore the Leopold Museum with Smarthistory as your guide
Some background
videos + essays
Link to the Leopold Museum's website
![Nazi looting: Egon Schiele’s <em>Portrait of Wally</em>](https://smarthistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/wallythumb-570x350.jpg)
Nazi looting: Egon Schiele’s Portrait of Wally
This portrait is one of thousands stolen by the Nazis, and its story shows that the madness didn’t end with WWII.
![Egon Schiele, <em>Seated Male Nude (Self-Portrait)</em>](https://smarthistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Schiele-Seated-Male-Nude-thumb-570x350.jpg)
Egon Schiele, Seated Male Nude (Self-Portrait)
The body’s expressive contortions reflect sculptural tradition, but Schiele used it to express the interior self.
![Egon Schiele, <em>The Hermits</em>](https://smarthistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Egon_Schiele-The_Hermits-thumb-570x350.jpg)
Egon Schiele, The Hermits
Is Schiele’s haunted figure meant to be a famed Austrian artist or Jesus Christ—or both?
![Gustav Klimt, <em>Death and Life</em>](https://smarthistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Gustav-Klimt-Death_and_Life-thumb-570x350.jpg)
Gustav Klimt, Death and Life
Death comes to everyone—peasant, priest, or prince. Here, Death menaces interconnected bodies… with a club.