Performance

Portrait of Dr. Erwin von Graff

1 upcoming performance in New York

On view at Neue Galerie New York, *Portrait of Dr. Erwin von Graff* brings Egon Schiele’s austere portraiture into a city built on new faces and public personas. The painting fixes on a modern professional type, rendered with Schiele’s compressed line and tense stillness, a record of early 20th-century Vienna as much as an individual sitter. In New York, where German and Austrian modernism has long shaped museum culture, its presence reads as a quiet link in that transatlantic history. The critical force is its refusal of flattery; identity here feels inspected rather than performed.