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Letter from Egon Schiele to Margarete Partonek, Mar. 1906

Leopold Museum,
Vienna
Leopold Museum,
Vienna
Black ink on paper
20.8×15.9 cm

Artists

  • Egon Schiele

    (Tulln 1890–1918 Vienna)

  • Margarete Partonek
Unfortunately not on display at the moment

Translation of the Transcription:

What were you looking at yesterday at ¼ 8 hr when you were still with Miss Herm.[ine] B. and Miss L. Schimpf?

Please write something to me again, I would be very pleased.
Are you perhaps mad at me when I say “Good day” or “Greet God”?

Beloved, make my wish come true and write something to me!

The word “Sie” [you, formal] sounds so strange, won’t you drop the “Sie” and switch to a different one? — — — —

You (“Du” [you, informal]) must pardon my scribblings, I could not write otherwise, since I’m away in danger.

Farewell, goodbye
Be kissed my Gretl.

ES. [Egon Schiele]

||

TO MISS
MARG. [Margarete] PARTONEK
LOCO.

Object data

Artist/author
  • Sender: Egon Schiele
  • Recipient: Margarete Partonek
Title
Letter from Egon Schiele to Margarete Partonek
Date
Mar. 1906
Category
Autograph
Material​/technique
Black ink on paper
Dimensions
20.8×15.9 cm
Credit line
Leopold Museum, Vienna, Inv. 5363
Inventory access
Accession 2008
Catalogue raisonne
  • ESDA ID 1893
  • Nebehay 1979: Nicht gelistet/Not listed
Keywords
autographletter/envelopepaper
Egon Schiele
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Provenance

Provenance research
Leopold Museum i

Margarete Partonek, Neu-Ofen (ab 1906);
Familie Partonek, Salnau (o.D.);
Auktion: 12.02.1959, Dorotheum, Wien, Los Nr. 318; (1)
Auktion: 29.11.2007, Galerie Auktionshaus Hassfurther, Wien, Biedermeier - Klassische Moderne, Los Nr. 24; (2)
Leopold Museum-Privatstiftung, Wien (seit 2007)

  1. Leopold Museum Wien, Datenbank der Autografen, ID 1893; Dorotheum Wien, Nachrichtenblatt für Bücherauktionen, Wien 1959
  2. Galerie Auktionshaus Hassfurther, Katalog zur 44. Auktion, S. 36-47; Archiv des Leopold Museums, Rechnung vom 04.04.2008

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