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Portrait of Leopold Czihaczek, 1907

Leopold Museum,
Vienna
Oil on canvas
47×29 cm

Artists

  • Egon Schiele

    (Tulln 1890–1918 Vienna)

Currently on display at OG3
After Adolf Schiele’s (1850–1905) untimely death, Czihaczek had taken over joint guardianship for Egon and his younger sister Gertrude (1894–1981). Like Schiele’s father, Czihaczek was a high-ranking railway official who wanted his ward to uphold the family tradition and to study engineering. Though Czihaczek did not approve of Schiele’s aspirations to become an artist, he took young Egon in when he came to Vienna in 1906 to study at the art Academy. During his studies between 1906 and 1909, Schiele created several portraits of his uncle, among them Leopold Czihaczek at the Piano.

Object data

Artist/author
  • Egon Schiele
Title
Portrait of Leopold Czihaczek
Date
1907
Art movement
Naturalism I Realism
Category
Painting
Material​/technique
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
47×29 cm
Signature
Signed and dated lower right: Schiele Mai 07
Credit line
Leopold Museum, Vienna, Inv. 8236, Donation E. & H. H.
Inventory access
Accession 2024
Keywords
man/boyportraitSuitbeardmoustache

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Provenance

Provenance research
Leopold Museum i

Nachlass Egon Schiele, Wien (1918);
Marie Schiele, Wien (1918-1935);
Melanie Schuster geb. Schiele, Wien (1935 bis 1972); (1)
Dr. Rudolf Leopold, Wien (1972-1990);
Privatsammlung, Österreich (1990); (2)
Sammlung E. und H. H., Niederösterreich (o.D.);
Leopold Museum-Privatstiftung, Wien (seit 2024). (3)

  1. Archiv des Leopold Museums, Kaufvertrag vom 16.07.1972; Rudolf Leopold, Egon Schiele. Gemälde, Aquarelle, Zeichnungen, Salzburg 1972, S. 523, Nr. 26
  2. Kallir Research Institute, Egon Schiele. The Complete Works Online, P 17: http://www.egonschieleonline.org/works/paintings/work/p17 (Abfrage: 18.10.2022)
  3. Archiv des Leopold Museums, Schenkungsvertrag vom 01.07.2024

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man/boyportraitSuitbeardmoustache

2023/2024 Partial funding for digitization by the Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, the Civil Service and Sport „Kulturerbe digital“ as part of NextGenerationEU.