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Letter from Egon Schiele to Leopold Czihaczek, 29th Jan. 1913

Leopold Museum,
Vienna
Leopold Museum,
Vienna
Ink on paper
26.9×17.4 cm

Artists

  • Egon Schiele

    (Tulln 1890–1918 Vienna)

  • Leopold Czihaczek

    (1842–1929)

Unfortunately not on display at the moment

Translation of the Transcription:

January 29, 1913

Read yesterday’s Arbeiterzeitung from Tuesday the 28th [double underlined]
EGON
SCHIELE
1913.
The two paintings “Jesuits” and “Procession”, which in the Munich Secession in the Sonderbund exhibition Cologne 1912 … (in which all the youngest from all countries, coming after van Gogh, Cezanne and Gauguin, have been represented), at the same time 127 van Goghs were on view, and was the most outstanding and select exhibition of the present time, organized by German gallery directors. The above paintings were in the monumental exhibition in Dresden, furthermore in Stuttgart and Karlsruhe, and will be shown in February at Miethke as a private collection of Dr. Reichel in Vienna, together with pictures from above collection by Romako, Kokoschka, Gütersloh, Faistauer, van Gogh, Munch, Toulouse Lautrec, Oppenheimer, and several other authoritative young artists.

[Envelope:]
To Mr. Leopold Czihaczek
Vienna II
Zirkusgasse 47, 2nd Floor

Egon Schiele Vienna
XIII H. Hauptstr. 101.

Object data

Artist/author
  • Sender: Egon Schiele
  • Recipient: Leopold Czihaczek
Title
Letter from Egon Schiele to Leopold Czihaczek
Date
29th Jan. 1913
Category
Autograph
Material​/technique
Ink on paper
Dimensions
26.9×17.4 cm
Credit line
Leopold Museum, Vienna, Inv. 5649
Inventory access
Accession 2010
Selection of Reference works
  • Christian M. Nebehay: Egon Schiele 1890 - 1918. Leben, Briefe, Gedichte, Salzburg 1979.
Catalogue raisonne
  • ESDA ID 557
  • Nebehay 1979: 445
Keywords
Egon Schiele
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Provenance

Provenance research
Leopold Museum i

Auktion: 22.06.2010, Im Kinsky Wien, 79. Kunstauktion, Klassische Moderne, Los Nr. 29
Leopold Museum-Privatstiftung, Wien (seit 2010); (1)

  1. Archiv des Leopold Museums, Rechnung Nr. 790187 vom 15.07.2010

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