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Nicht gelistet/Not listed

Leopold Museum, Vienna, Inv. 7561

around 6th Nov. 1910 (inferred from content)

Black ink on paper

17,6 x 10,8 cm

[Translation:]

DEAR HOFRAT [Court Councilor] J. CZ.

SINCE FEBRUARY, I AM NO LONGER WITH THE ‘NEW ART GROUP’. I WROTE TO YOU ONCE ASKING IF YOU WOULD ALLOW ME TO PAINT YOU. – YET I NEVER RECEIVED A RESPONSE. – AND I IMMEDIATELY KNEW WHY. I DID NOT ASK TO PAINT YOU BECAUSE YOU WROTE ABOUT THE NEW ART FOXES ON 1 DEC.[ember] 1909, [1] BUT SIMPLY BECAUSE I HAVE SUCH FOND MEMORIES OF THE DAY
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I PAID YOU A VISIT. – THIS IS WHY I HAD THE DESIRE TO PAINT YOU, AND ASKED YOU TO SIT FOR ME, WHICH BY NO MEANS SHOULD AND CAN SOUND LIKE SELF-INTEREST ON MY PART. – EVEN NOW. IF ON ONE OF THE NEXT FEW DAYS YOU CAN SPARE THE TIME, THEN PLEASE VISIT ME IN MY STUDIO TO SEE MY LATEST WORKS, WHICH IN SPRING I WILL BE EXHIBITING ALONE AT MIETHKE’S. [2] INCLUDING AN ‘OTTO WAGNER PORTRAIT’ [3] AN ‘ARTHUR RÖSSLER PORTRAIT’ [4] AND A G. KLIMT PORTRAIT [5] I AM CURRENTLY WORKING ON. –
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I WENT THROUGH KLIMT UNTIL MARCH. TODAY I BELIEVE I AM QUITE DIFFERENT.
BEST

Egon Schiele

XII., Grünbergstraße 31.
next to the ‘Tivoli’

[1] Josef Strzygowski: “Die Neukunst-Füchse”, in: Die Zeit, 1st Dec. 1909, pp. 1–2.
[2] Egon Schiele, Galerie Miethke, Vienna, 24th April–4th May 1911.
[3] Portrait of the Architect Otto Wagner, 1910, K P164.
[4] Portrait of Arthur Roessler, 1910, K P163.
[5] Gustav Klimt (1862–1918); the painting was not implemented.

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