Letter from Egon Schiele to Karl Ernst Osthaus, Mar. 1911

Translation of the Transcription:

Dear!

The following:
Egon Schiele born on 12 June 1890 in Tulln Lower Austria; unsuitable pupil at all schools. At 16 I entered the Academy in Vienna was naturally regarded as crazy and my presence met with hostility. After I exhibited at the second intern. art exhibition [Internationale Kunstschau] in Vienna in 1909 I was severely persecuted at the Academy. Deputations because of me at the Academy, conflicts, etc. – I realized that
some of my colleagues had special talents; I tried to leave the Academy with them
and founded a group of young artists under the name “Neukunst Wien" [New Art Vienna]. [There] ensued personal arguments with my colleagues, so I declared
my resignation. At that time “Neukunst Wien" went to Prague where I
was still represented. – Later some of my colleagues exhibited with Oskar Kokoschka
at the Hagenbund. – Although I had the strongest intention to create one art coalition here, it was nipped in the bud, made impossible. – Afterwards I exhibited collectively
a few times or one or several paintings. Hunting exhibition – Kunstschau division, collective exhibition at Miethke’s, at Putze in Munich and at the Hagenbund in Vienna, Sema Munich foreseeable
Most sincerely Egon Schiele.