On New Year's Eve, 1904, Adolph Schiele, provincial railroad station master and father of Egon Schiele (1890-1918), died in Klosterneuburg, Austria, of tertiary syphilis at age 54 years.^1(p9) Fourteen-year-old Egon was devastated by his death.² He and his mother and 2 sisters had witnessed his father's rapid decline in the previous 2 years. They humored him when his hallucinatory guests came for dinner and expressed alarm when he attempted suicide. He had contracted syphilis around the time of his marriage but refused to admit that he had the disease, would not have it treated, and soon infected his 17-year-old wife.^1(p10) Her first 3 pregnancies, all boys, were stillborn; Elvira, the first surviving child, is believed to . . . [Full Text of this Article]