
Leopold Museum,
Vienna
Vienna
Poem “A Self-Portrait”
1910
(Tulln 1890–1918 Vienna)
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.
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