“We are questioning gender norms and so was he.” “(He was) struggling with his own sexual feelings and gender norms, and I think that is where his work very much speaks to people’s concerns today,” says Kallir. The contorting, androgynous limbs and potent, clothesless figures in Schiele’s portraits transcended gender binaries. Schiele was certainly questioning his own gender on an “unconscious or preconscious” level, says Gerald Izenberg, a Schiele essayist and celebrated historian on the concept of self.
