The rooms in Egon Schiele’s birthplace provide authentic insights into events in the childhood of this exceptional artist. As the son of the station master Alfred Schiele, Egon spent more than a decade in Tulln from 1890 on. These years shaped his artistic work in significant ways.

The individual rooms in the station apartment are furnished in the authentic style of fin de siècle Austria. They tell numerous stories about the Schiele family’s rise and fall via sound bays and a modern audio system.

Authentic encounter with Schiele

The furniture is painted light gray in keeping with the well thought-out design of the museum. Visitors can visualize how the birthplace may have looked according to various stories from Egon Schiele himself, his two sisters Elvira and Melanie, his mother Marie and contemporaries of the time.

An interactive room for reflection at the end of the tour delves even deeper into aspects of life and living for the Schiele family and the city of Tulln as the 19th c gave way to the 20th c.

Egon Schiele and his years in Tulln

Egon Schiele grew up in a railroad family and spent more than a third of his life living in his father’s station master apartment in the Tulln train station. Schiele was born on 12 June 1890 to Adolf and Marie Schiele as their third child.

Artists of international significance

Egon Schiele (1890-1918) was one of the key visual artists of Viennese Modernism along with Gustav Klimt and Oskar Kokoschka. He was born on 12 June 1890 at the train station of Tulln an der Donau. By age ten, he was already showing remarkable talent for painting.

This gift was encouraged from the outset and the young genius took and passed the admission examination to the Academy at the earliest possible date. Egon Schiele died of the Spanish flu on 30 October 1918 not long after turning 28. His oeuvre at this time already totaled 3,000 works of art. On his deathbed he expressed the conviction that his pictures would one day hang in all the great museums of the world and he was proven right