... at the time he painted it; he may have felt old and tired. But Schiele may also have been just experimenting in different ways of painting facial features and expressions. If you look at Schiele's hands in the portrait, it looks as though Schiele has deliberately elongated the fingers and made them thinner and more withered. This again, makes you think that Schiele has deliberately made himself look older and more animated. The clothes that Schele is wearing in the portrait look to be too big and baggy for him, and therefore seem also to portray his feelings at the time, maybe he was feeling like "a young man in old man's body", or "a small boy in a big man's clothes". I have found out that at the time of this painting, Egon Schiele like to give an expression of extreme poverty. But his claims that at this time he was ...

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