![]() She was immediately entranced, and her eye was particularly taken by Munch. They handed her a book on Expressionism containing reproductions not only of works by Schiele but of paintings by Oskar Kokoschka and Edvard Munch. She went to the Albion Bookshop in her hometown of Margate and asked if they had anything on him. ![]() ![]() Emin had never heard of Schiele but was intrigued. Around the age of 15, a friend told her that the covers of his albums Heroes and Lodger were inspired by paintings by the Austrian artist Egon Schiele. When Tracey Emin RA was a teenager, she was, in her words, “a huge fan of David Bowie”. Jennifer Higgie is Editor-at-Large of Frieze, host of Bow Down podcast and author of ‘Mirror & the Palette: 500 Years of Women’s Self-Portraits’, published in March 2021 (Weidenfeld & Nicolson).
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