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Poem “Wet Evening”, 1910

Leopold Museum,
Vienna
Indelible pencil on paper
29.9×19.1 cm

Artists

  • Egon Schiele

    (Tulln 1890–1918 Vienna)

Unfortunately not on display at the moment

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 Schiele
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
  • ESDA ID 137
  • Nebehay 1979: 166
Keywords
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Egon Schiele
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Leopold Museum i
Dr. Rudolf Leopold, Wien (o.D.);
Leopold Museum-Privatstiftung, Wien (seit 1994).

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