Poem “Wet Evening”, 1910

Leopold Museum,
Vienna

Poem “Wet Evening”
1910

Indelible pencil on paper

29.9×19.1 cm

Egon Schiele
(Tulln 1890–1918 Vienna)

Unfortunately not on display at the moment

Translation of the Transcription:

WET EVENING.

I WANTED TO GIVE EAR TO THE
EVENING’S COOL BREATHING, TO THE BLACK
WEATHER TREES, I SAY TO THE BLACK
WEATHER TREES, THEN
TO GNATS, LAMENTING,
TO FARMERS’ COARSE FOOTFALLS
TO BELLS’ DISTANT ECHOES.
TO HEAR THE REGATTA TREES,
TO SEE THE WOOD-LINED RACE PATHS,
AND GNATS, SINGING LIKE WIRES IN THE
WINDWINTERLAND – BUT THE GREAT
DARK MAN BROKE THE MUSIC IN THEIR
STRINGS. –

THE RAISED CITY WAS COLD IN THE
WATER BEFORE ME.

Egon Schiele 1910.

VG, 2021

Object data

Artist/author

Egon SchieleGND

Title

Poem “Wet Evening”

Date

1910

Art movement

Expressionism

Category

Autograph

Material/technique

Indelible pencil on paper

Dimensions

29.9×19.1 cm

Signature

Signed and dated lower center: EGON SCHIELE 1910

Credit line

Leopold Museum, Vienna, Inv. 4493

Inventory access

Contributed to the Leopold Museum-Privatstiftung in 1994

Selection of Reference works

Schiele - Brus - Palme. Absturzträume, hrsg. von Roman Grabner und Hans-Peter Wipplinger, Graz 2018 (Ausst.-Kat. Leopold Museum, Wien, 03.03.2018-11.06.2018).
Egon Schiele. Melancholie und Provokation, hrsg. von Elisabeth/Diethard Leopold, Wien 2011 (Ausst.-Kat. Leopold Museum, Wien, 23.09.2011–19.04.2012).
Der Lyriker Egon Schiele. Briefe und Gedichte 1910–1912 aus der Sammlung Leopold, hrsg. von Rudolf Leopold/Elisabeth Leopold, München 2008.
Christian M. Nebehay: Egon Schiele 1890-1918. Leben, Briefe, Gedichte, Salzburg 1979.

Catalogue raisonne