Draft for a poem by Egon Schiele: “Observation”
Draft for a poem by Egon Schiele: “Observation” Bild 1
Leopold Museum, Vienna
ESDA ID
32
Nebehay 1979
159; 767 a
Credit line
Leopold Museum, Vienna, Inv. 7459
Date
July 1910 (inferred from content)
Material/technique
Pencil, black ink on paper
Dimensions
16 x 9 cm
Transcription
[Translation:]

There up on the
wide forest-lined
undulating land the white
tall man walks
slowly amidst blue smoke
and smells, and smells
the white forest winds;
he walks through the
cellar-scented earth.
And laughs and cries.

Egon Schiele 1910.

[written by another hand:] To Painter A. [Anton] Peschka 1910.
Provenance
Provenienz lt. Nebehay 1979:
Verbleib unbekannt, als Quelle wird H. M. 1968 [Hist. Museum der Stadt Wien 1968], Nr. 52, S. 62 angeben sowie Kleines Archiv, Walter Jary, Wien.

vor 2023: Privatsammlung
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Recorded in
Pfemfert 1915, 5/3-4, S. 37; Hist. Museum der Stadt Wien 1968, S. 21, Nr. 52, Abb. S. 62; Wiener Bibl. Ges. 1977, S. 17; Brandstätter 1985, S. 36; Leopold Museum 2008, S. 19
Owner
Leopold Museum
Author
Egon Schiele
Image credit
Leopold Museum, Vienna

Bibliography

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  • Schiele 1915
    Egon Schiele: “Beobachtung”; “Empfindung”, in: Die Aktion. Wochenschrift für Politik, Literatur, Kunst, year 5, nos. 3/4, 16th Jan. 1915, col. 37–38
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