1652) Edith Harms

Edith Harms (1893 - 1918). Wife of Austrian painter Egon Schiele.
She and her sister Adéle met Schiele in 1914. They lived with their parents across the street from his studio in the Viennese district of Hietzing. They were a middle-class family and Protestant by faith; their father was a master locksmith. In 1915, Schiele chose to marry Edith, who asked him to break his relatioship with her model and lover Wally Neuzil.
The couple died of Spanish flu in 1918. Edith was six months pregnant with their first child. 

 

Judging from the two paintings below, Adéle too might have had reddish hair (although the two sisters looked very similar and so it is sometimes difficult for art critics to distinguish one sister from the other).