Schiele and our dark souls

Schiele revealed what those others couldn't or wouldn't dare to. while Klimt (and to a lesser extent Kokoschka) toyed with the ornate gloss of Vienna, Schiele pealed back the sellophane and exposed the rotting flesh, the vibrant filth and the fury in the bowels of society... the festering street urchins who were trampled under the polished boots of aristocrats...