The German artist Egon Schiele embraced raw sexuality without apology. “To restrict the artist is a crime,” he said. “It is to murder germinating life.” Born in 1890 in Austria, he studied art at Vienna’s Kunstgewerbeschule, as Gustav Klimt did before him. Schiele then sought out Klimt as a mentor, and his earliest works carry strong similarities. As his career progressed, Schiele increasingly focused on human vulnerability. From 1910 until his death, in 1918, he enjoyed a close relationship with Dr. Erwin von Graff, who allowed Schiele unprecedented access to hospital patients. There, he captured the emotional intensity between women and their babies. This exhibition at the Neue Galerie is the first to examine the pivotal relationship between Graff and Schiele, which so influenced the artist’s fascination with the human body. —Maggie Turner