Poem “Country Road”, 1910

Leopold Museum,
Vienna

Poem “Country Road”
1910

Indelible pencil on paper

29.9×19.1 cm

Unfortunately not on display at the moment

Translation of the Transcription:

COUNTRY ROAD.

THE HIGH TREES ALL WALKED ALONG THE ROAD, QUIVERY BIRDS CHIRPING AMONG THEM. – WITH LARGE STEPS AND RED MEAN-EYES I TRAVERSED THE WET ROADS.

Egon Schiele 1910.

Object data

Artist/author

Title

Poem “Country Road”

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. 4494

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).
Tracey Emin- Egon Schiele: Where I want to go, hrsg. von Karol Winiarczyk/Diethard Leopold, Wien 2015 (Ausst.-Kat. Leopold Museum, Wien, 24.04.2015-14.09.2015).
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

Keywords

poemautographtreestreetbirdpaper

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Dr. Rudolf Leopold, Wien (o.D.);
Leopold Museum-Privatstiftung, Wien (seit 1994).

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