Poem “A Self-Portrait”, 1910

Leopold Museum,
Vienna

Poem “A Self-Portrait”
1910

Indelible pencil on paper

30×19.1 cm

Egon Schiele
(Tulln 1890–1918 Vienna)

Unfortunately not on display at the moment

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 SchieleGND

Title

Poem “A Self-Portrait”

Date

1910

Art movement

Expressionism

Category

Autograph

Material/technique

Indelible pencil on paper

Dimensions

30×19.1 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.
Christian M. Nebehay: Egon Schiele 1890-1918. Leben, Briefe, Gedichte, Salzburg 1979.

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