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Poem “A Self-Portrait”, 1910

Leopold Museum,
Vienna
Indelible pencil on paper
29.8×19.1 cm

Artists

  • Egon Schiele

    (Tulln 1890–1918 Vienna)

Unfortunately not on display at the moment

Translation of the Transcription:

A SELF-PORTRAIT.

I AM FOR ME AND THOSE TO WHOM THE THIRSTY DRUNKENNESS FOR FREEDOM PRESENTS EVERYTHING WITH ME, AND FOR EVERYONE AS WELL, BECAUSE EVERYONE
I LOVE AS WELL, – LOVE.

I AM AMONG THE MOST NOBLE THE MOST NOBLE AND AMONG THOSE WHO REQUITE
THE ONE WHO REQUITES MOST I AM HUMAN, I LOVE DEATH AND LOVE LIFE.

Egon Schiele 1910.

Object data

Artist/author
  • Egon Schiele
Title
Poem “A Self-Portrait”
Date
1910
Art movement
Expressionism
Category
Autograph
Material​/technique
Indelible pencil on paper
Dimensions
29.8×19.1 cm
Signature
Signed and dated lower center: Egon Schiele 1910.
Credit line
Leopold Museum, Vienna, Inv. 4495
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).
  • Wien 1900. Sammlung Leopold, hrsg. von Diethard Leopold/Peter Weinhäupl, Wien u.a. 2009.
  • 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 139
  • Nebehay 1979: 157
Keywords
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Dr. Rudolf Leopold, Wien (o.D.);
Leopold Museum-Privatstiftung, Wien (seit 1994).

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