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Letter from Egon Schiele to Georg Merkel (on stationary used by the Vienna Secession), 4th Jan. 1918

Leopold Museum,
Vienna
Print, ink on paper
27.3×21.3 cm

Artists

  • Egon Schiele

    (Tulln 1890–1918 Vienna)

  • Georg Merkel

    (Lviv 1881–1976 Vienna)

Unfortunately not on display at the moment

Transcription:

VIENNA, 1st district, 4th January 1918.

Dear Merkl [Georg Merkel], as you will have learnt from Oberlt. [First Lieutenant] [Karl] Grünwald, I have been able to carry through an exhibition of new Austrian art at the Vienna Secession. We want to have displays in individual rooms and an overview exhibition. Please send a large amount of your best paintings there at your earliest convenience, and let us know which of them you would like to see reproduced in the catalogue. We want to dedicate a whole room to your work.

Kind regards!
EGON
SCHIELE
1918

Paintings and drawings!

Object data

Artist/author
  • Sender: Egon Schiele
  • Recipient: Georg Merkel
Title
Letter from Egon Schiele to Georg Merkel (on stationary used by the Vienna Secession)
Date
4th Jan. 1918
Category
Autograph
Material​/technique
Print, ink on paper
Dimensions
27.3×21.3 cm
Credit line
Leopold Museum, Vienna, Inv. 7864
Inventory access
Accession 2023
Catalogue raisonne
  • ESDA ID 123
Keywords
Secessionletter/envelopeseal/stampEgon Schieleletters/alphabet/scriptpaper
Egon Schiele
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Provenance

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Leopold Museum i

Privatsammlung Leopold, Wien; (1)
Leopold Museum-Privatstiftung, Wien (2023)

  1. Archiv des Leopold Museums, Rechnung Nr. 01-2023 vom 18.04.2023

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