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Schiele ignored light and shadow effects that model the body, and instead dispensed shadow strokes that divested the character of all spatial containment. In his atelier, he often worked on a ladder from where he captured his models from a bird’s eye view perspective in an extreme visual angle of under- and oversight. This calls to mind one of his verses: “an intimate bird sits in a leafy tree, he is dull coloured, hardly moves and does not sing; his eyes reflect a thousand greens.” He isolated the creatures in his view, set them in a world without time or place. Bodies form space. An example of the spatial lack of orientation of his subjects is the commissioned artwork for friederike maria beer, the fashion-conscious daughter of a cabaret proprietor who actively followed viennese art events.