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Postcard from Egon Schiele to Carl Reininghaus, 20th Oct. 1916

Leopold Museum,
Vienna
Leopold Museum,
Vienna
recto: Ink, crayon on paper, verso: Print, ink on paper
9×14 cm

Artists

  • Egon Schiele

    (Tulln 1890–1918 Vienna)

  • Carl Reininghaus

    (Graz 1857–1929 Vienna)

Unfortunately not on display at the moment

Translation of the Transcription:

20th October 1916.
Dear Mr. Reininghaus! I will be in Vienna on Sunday, the 22nd of this month, and if you are free and so inclined, I would be delighted if you were to visit me on Sunday afternoon after 4 pm, or in the evening, at my studio, in Vienna XIII. Hietzinger-Hauptstr.[aße] 101.
Kind regards,
EGON
SCHIELE
1916

I will bring a painting I painted here.

[written by a foreign hand:]
redacted 21st Oct. 16.
[underlined with red crayon]

Presently Egon Schiele, Imperial-Royal Officer’s Station for
Prisoners of War in Mühling bei
Wieselburg. Nied. Österr. [Lower Austria]

[Address block:]
Mr. Carl Reininghaus
Vienna I.
Stubenring 6.

Object data

Artist/author
  • Sender: Egon Schiele
  • Recipient: Carl Reininghaus
Title
Postcard from Egon Schiele to Carl Reininghaus
Date
20th Oct. 1916
Category
Autograph
Material​/technique
recto: Ink, crayon on paper, verso: Print, ink on paper
Dimensions
9×14 cm
Credit line
Leopold Museum, Vienna, Inv. 7778
Inventory access
Accession 2023
Catalogue raisonne
  • ESDA ID 6
Keywords
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Provenance

Provenance research
Leopold Museum i

Viktor Fogarassy, Graz; (1)
Privatsammlung Leopold, Wien; (2)
Leopold Museum-Privatstiftung, Wien (2023)

  1. Egon Schiele Datenbank der Autografen (ESDA), ID: 6
  2. Archiv des Leopold Museums, Rechnung Nr. 01-2023 vom 18.04.2023

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