Egon Schiele’s calling card with a message to Edith and Adele Harms
Leopold Museum, Vienna
ESDA ID
1903
Nebehay 1979
Nicht gelistet/Not listed
Credit line
Leopold Museum, Vienna, Inv. 7447
Date
around 1914 (inferred from content)
Material/technique
Black ink on paper
Dimensions
5,6 x 9,8 cm
Transcription
[Translation:]
Dear sisters Adda and Edda!
Would you like to go on a trip to Heiligenkreuz with us next Sunday? – if so, please make sure to let me know by Friday at the latest
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we, Mr. E. my wife [1] and I will go from St. Veit a. d. [an der] Wien to the Southern Railways in Hetzendorf!
EGON SCHIELE [print]
at 9–10h in the morning.
Kind regards!
Dear sisters Adda and Edda!
Would you like to go on a trip to Heiligenkreuz with us next Sunday? – if so, please make sure to let me know by Friday at the latest
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we, Mr. E. my wife [1] and I will go from St. Veit a. d. [an der] Wien to the Southern Railways in Hetzendorf!
EGON SCHIELE [print]
at 9–10h in the morning.
Kind regards!
Annotations
[1] Mr. E.: not identified. Schiele sometimes referred to Walburga “Wally” Neuzil (1894–1917) as “his wife”; the couple was never married.
Provenance
vor 2023: Privatsammlung
2023: Leopold Museum-Privatstiftung (Ankauf)
2023: Leopold Museum-Privatstiftung (Ankauf)
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Leopold Museum, Vienna
PURL: https://www.egonschiele.at/1903