Postcard from Egon Schiele to Carl Reininghaus
Postcard from Egon Schiele to Carl Reininghaus Bild 1
Postcard from Egon Schiele to Carl Reininghaus Bild 2
Leopold Museum, Vienna
ESDA ID
6
Nebehay 1979
1118
Credit line
Leopold Museum, Vienna, Inv. 7778
Place
Mühling bei Wieselburg
Date
20th Oct. 1916 (handwritten)
Material/technique
Black ink, red colored pencil on paper
Dimensions
9 x 14 cm
Transcription
[Translation:]

20th October 1916.
Dear Mr. Reininghaus! I will be in Vienna on Sunday, the 22nd of this month, and if you are free and so inclined, I would be delighted if you were to visit me on Sunday afternoon after 4 pm, or in the evening, at my studio, in Vienna XIII. Hietzinger-Hauptstr.[aße] 101.
Kind regards,
EGON
SCHIELE
1916

I will bring a painting I painted here. [1]

[written by another hand:]
redacted 21st Oct. 16.
[underlined with red crayon]

Presently Egon Schiele, Imperial-Royal Officer’s Station for
Prisoners of War in Mühling bei
Wieselburg. Nied. Österr. [Lower Austria]

[Address block:]
To Mr. Carl Reininghaus
Vienna I.
Stubenring 6.
Annotations
[1] Probably Decaying Mill (Mountain Mill), 1916, K P301.
Provenance
Provenienz lt. Nebehay 1979:
Viktor Fogarassy, Graz
vor 2023: Privatsammlung
2023: Leopold Museum-Privatstiftung (Ankauf)
Image credit
Leopold Museum, Vienna

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PURL: https://www.egonschiele.at/6