Egon Schiele’s Birthplace

Enter the Schieles' apartment
The redesigned rooms of Egon Schiele's birthplace offer authentic insights into the moving childhood of this exceptional artist. As the son of the station manager Adolf Schiele, Egon Schiele spent more than a decade in Tulln from 1890, which had a decisive influence on his future artistic work.

The individual rooms of the station apartment are furnished in the authentic style of the Wilhelminian era and tell numerous stories about the rise and fall of the Schiele family using a modern audio system via sound showers.Original pieces of furniture from around 1900 reconstruct the character of a bourgeois apartment and make the immediate feeling of life at that time tangible.

Egon Schiele and his time in Tulln
Egon Schiele came from a family of railroad workers and spent more than a third of his life in his father's apartment at the Tulln train station. Schiele was born on June 12, 1890 as the third child of Adolf and Marie Schiele and spent a carefree childhood as the son of the stationmaster. In Tulln, the young Schiele experienced the new phenomenon of mobility with unexpected intensity, and his early childhood drawings bear witness to his great interest in the railroad.

This openness and interest in modern technology and progress were good starting conditions for a future representative of the artistic avant-garde. When Schiele began his grammar school years in Krems and Klosterneuburg and set off for a great career as an artist in Vienna, he took the formative experiences of his childhood with him on his life's journey.

Artist of international significance
Alongside Gustav Klimt and Oskar Kokoschka, Egon Schiele (1890-1918) is one of the most important visual artists of Viennese Modernism. He was born on June 12, 1890 in Tulln station on the Danube.
Even as a ten-year-old, his talent as a painter stood out. This was encouraged from the outset and the young genius passed the entrance examination for the Academy as soon as possible. Egon Schiele died of the "Spanish flu" on October 30, 1918, aged just 28. At this time, his oeuvre already included well over 3,000 works of art. The conviction he expressed on his deathbed that his paintings would later hang in all the world's great museums was to prove impressively true.

Family tip:
Children's adventure tour in Egon Schiele's birthplace
The town of Tulln has come up with a special form of educational program for children and young people from primary and lower secondary schools: A comic specially created for the birthplace takes young people on an adventure tour through the artist's young life. TIP: Children's book "Little Egon and the Phantom Image" for sale at the Tulln Tourist Information Office

Public transportation by train & bus:
The journey with the S40 or the regional express (REX) from Vienna Franz-Josefs-Bahnhof takes approx. 20-40 minutes and from St. Pölten approx. 70 minutes. You can find the current timetable here.
Public bus lines (Postbus, Bahnbus, Regionalbus, Wieselbus, Rundlinien-Verkehr) will also take you to your destination.