RT Journal
A1 Harris JC
T1 THe family (squatting couple)
JF Archives of General Psychiatry
JO Archives of General Psychiatry
YR 2004
FD September 1
VO 61
IS 9
SP 864
OP 864
DO 10.1001/archpsyc.61.9.864
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archpsyc.61.9.864
AB 
In 1918, more than 20 million people died worldwide in a global influenzapandemic; the "Spanish flu" killed more than 3 times the number of peoplekilled in World War I. Among those who died was one of the most outstandingAustrian Expressionists of the era, 28-year-old Egon Schiele, and his wife,Edith. Schiele died at the home of his mother-in-law on November 1, 1918,at 1 AM,1(p187) during the secondand most lethal wave of the epidemic. He was exposed while caring for Edith,who had contracted the flu at a local market and died just 3 days before him.At the time of her death, she was 6 months pregnant with their first child.