Poem “Two Clerics”, 1910

Leopold Museum,
Vienna

Poem “Two Clerics”
1910

Indelible pencil on paper

30×19.2 cm

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 SchieleGND

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