Skip to content
ONLINECOLLECTION
Search

Poem “Country Road”, 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

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
  • Egon Schiele
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
  • ESDA ID 138
  • Nebehay 1979: 652c
Keywords
poemautographtreestreetbirdpaper
Egon Schiele
Autograph Database

For further information on Egon Schiele and to conduct primary source research, please visit our Egon Schiele Autograph Database.

Egon Schiele Autograph Database

If you have further information on this object, please contact us.

Provenance

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

For provenance related information, please contact us.

Search in collection

poemautographtreestreetbirdpaper