Egon Schiele (1890–1918)—a young man from the Austro-Hungarian provinces whose art now graces the world’s most important museums; a provocateur accused of spreading pornography; a pioneer of Expressionism whose canvases depict death and desire entwined in a lover’s embrace. The documentary *Egon Schiele: Beyond Taboo* paints a fascinating portrait of this brilliant artist—a child of a turbulent era defined by World War I and plague—who used eroticism to reach the most fragile, intimate, and vulnerable parts of the human spirit. The film explores the forces that shaped his inner world, examines his relationships with women, and, above all, showcases treasures from the world’s largest collection of Schiele’s paintings at the Leopold Museum in Vienna.