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Poem “Two Clerics”, 1910

Leopold Museum,
Vienna
Indelible pencil on paper
30×19.2 cm

Artists

  • Egon Schiele

    (Tulln 1890–1918 Vienna)

Unfortunately not on display at the moment

Transcription:

TWO CLERICS.

THE ORANGEGRAYGREEN GRASS FIELD
COVERS THE
ROLLING-ROUND-GLEAMING-BLACK
GLABROUS GLOBE WITH THE
CRIMSON BROWN FAT HEAD.
UPON WHICH THE GLISTENING-GLEAM-
ING GLASSES GLEAM, DANGLES
THE WHITE CROSS-CHAIN, –
IN LARGE PACES NEXT TO
HIM, STRADDLES THE TALL
TYPICAL-GRAY-GROUCHY PALE
EYEGLASS-EYEBALLER WHO SPEAKS
GRUMPILY IN THE SUNDERED LAND.

Egon Schiele 1910.

Object data

Artist/author
  • Egon Schiele
Title
Poem “Two Clerics”
Date
1910
Art movement
Expressionism
Category
Autograph
Material​/technique
Indelible pencil on paper
Dimensions
30×19.2 cm
Signature
Signed and dated lower center: Egon Schiele 1910
Credit line
Leopold Museum, Vienna, Inv. 4496
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).
  • 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 140
  • Nebehay 1979: 652b
Keywords
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Egon Schiele
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Provenance

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

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