Two days after the death of Egon Schiele in 1918, Gustinus Ambrosi, a young admiring sculptor, arrived at his coffin, opened it up, and made a mold of the man’s face. Though Ambrosi would memorialize ...
A death mask of the Viennese painter Egon Schiele has sold at auction for £19,000 ($24,600), nearly 10 times its pre-sale estimate. Gustinus Ambrosi’s The Death Mask of Egon Schiele (1918) was one of ...