Themed tour for children at Schiele birthplace

The city of Tulln has come up with a special educational program for children and young people at primary schools and lower secondary schools. A comic created especially for the birthplace guides young people through a themed tour of the life of the artist as a young boy. After garnering much praise for his graphic novel about the adult Egon Schiele, French cartoonist and comic illustrator Xavier Coste was won over to create this interactive comic. It goes through Egon Schiele’s life within individual thematic areas such as “Modern technology”, “What do I want to be when I grow up?” or “Rules and regulations” and is meant to be food for thought and to stimulate discussions. The young people choose a certain thematic area based on simple questions, so that each child can experience Egon Schiele’s life from a different angle. The idea and concept came from Schiele expert Christian Bauer and toikoi, an international office specializing in art education that already designed the birthplace.

This project was supported with funds from NÖ Stadterneuerung and the province of Lower Austria.