Egon Schiele
Austrian painter, 1890-1918
"Egon Schiele was an Austrian painter. A protégé of Gustav Klimt, Schiele was a major figurative painter of the early 20th century. His work is noted for its intensity and its raw sexuality, and the many self-portraits the artist produced, including naked self-portraits. The twisted body shapes and the expressive line that characterize Schiele's paintings and drawings mark the artist as an early exponent of Expressionism. The Leopold Museum, Vienna houses perhaps Schiele's most important and complete collection of work, featuring over 200 exhibits. The museum sold one of these, ""Houses With Colorful Laundry (Suburb II""), for $40.1 million at Sotheby's in 2011."
Source: Wikipedia
österreichischer Maler des Expressionismus (1890-1918). Eigenh. Ansichtskarte m. Unterschrift. [Villach]. 8vo. 1 p. Bleistift.
$ 7,541 / 6.500 €
(78908)
An den Graphiker Robert Philippi in Wien, der ihm Unterricht im Radieren gab. „13. Juli 1914. | Herzliche | Grüsse | EgonSchiele“ Die farbige Bildseite zeigt die „Station Rosenbachtal. Karawankenbahn. Kärnten“. Bei Nebehay nicht verzeichnet.
Maler (1890-1918). Autograph postcard signed. Wien. ½ S. 8vo. Mit eh. Adresse und Absender.
$ 8,702 / 7.500 €
(61066/BN45175)
Informing his teacher Robert Philippi that his chair "for 12 K" (Austro-Hungarian crowns) is ready and can be picked up. - Address page severely browned in lower margin.
Maler (1890-1918). Autograph letter signed. Wien. 2 SS. auf Doppelblatt. In schwarzer Tinte, zwei Zeilen mit zarter Unterstreichung in Rotstift. Kl.-4to. Mit eh. adr. Kuvert (verso auch mit eh. Absender).
$ 40,607 / 35.000 €
(80912/BN52805)
Unpublished letter to lieutenant Gustav Herrmann at the POW camp in Mühling near Wieselburg (Lower Austria), requesting a loan of several portraits for Vienna's 1917 War Exhibition: "Ich wurde zur Beteiligung an der Kriegsausstellung eingeladen und bitte Sie Herr Oberleutnant alle Ihre Porträtzeichnungen, die von Herrn Oberleutnant, von Herrn Oberleutnant Bodor und Herrn Dr. Fromowitsch gezeichneten Blätter auf Dauer der Ausstellung zu leihen. - Die Blätter werden als in Privatbesitz des Herrn ...
geführt und frage Sie ob der volle Name oder die Anfangsbuchstaben des Besitzers im Katalog angegeben werden dürfen. Sämtliche Blätter werden nach Schluß der Ausstellung an die Herrn zurückgeschickt. Weil die Arbeiten bis Sonntag zusammengestellt sein sollen, - so bitte ich Sie die Blätter jemanden der am Samstag nach Wien fährt, mitgeben zu wollen und an meine Adresse zu bringen […]". - As part of his military service, Schiele had been posted to Mühling, a POW camp for Russian and Italian officers, from May 1916 until the beginning of 1917. There, Lt. Herrmann had arranged a studio for Schiele, who sketched several portraits of Austrian officers. In May 1917 Schiele, who by then had been transferred to Vienna, participated in the "Vienna 1917 War Exhibition", which took place in the Imperial Garden in the Prater park from May to October. Together with Albert Paris Gütersloh he was responsible for the design of Room III (art dept.), which included works by Gütersloh, Faistauer, Harta, Kolig, Eder, Jungnickel, and Rudolph, as well as twenty of Schiele's portraits and the oil painting "Heroes' Graves - Resurrection". - Slightly wrinkled, otherwise perfectly preserved..
sold
Portraitphotographie auf Rückseite der Identitätskarte der österreichischen Staatsbahnen mit eigenh. U. ("Egon Leo Schiele") in Bleistift.
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Until his retirement in 1902, Schiele's father worked as stationmaster in Tulln on the Danube. - The 12-year-old Schiele's signature in pencil and rather faded.
Eigenh. Brief mit U.
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Exceptionally attractive and scarce letter, in German, stating that the payment of 700 Crowns has arrived. Schiele agrees to the restoration of one of his pictures, should any kind of cracking appear in the work. The beauty of the letter shows in the signature: he signs with the date in a square as in the manner of his signature on his paintings, "EgonSchiele 1917." - Schiele was an early exponent of Expressionism. As a student of Klimt, he also remains associated with art nouveau, and he was successful artist by the time he died in 1918, a victim of the Spanish flu.