Poem by Egon Schiele: Wet Evening
Leopold Museum, Vienna
ESDA ID
137
Nebehay 1979
166
Credit line
Leopold Museum, Vienna, Inv. 4493
Date
July 1910 (inferred from content)
Material/technique
Pencil on paper
Dimensions
30 x 19 cm
Transcription
[Translation:]
WET EVENING.
I WANTED TO GIVE EAR TO THE
EVENING’S COOL BREATHING, TO THE BLACK
WEATHER TREES, I SAY TO THE BLACK
WEATHER TREES, THEN
TO GNATS, LAMENTING,
TO FARMERS’ COARSE FOOTFALLS
TO BELLS’ DISTANT ECHOES.
TO HEAR THE REGATTA TREES,
TO SEE THE WOOD-LINED RACE PATHS,
AND GNATS, SINGING LIKE WIRES IN THE
WINDWINTERLAND – BUT THE GREAT
DARK MAN BROKE THE MUSIC IN THEIR
STRINGS. –
THE RAISED CITY WAS COLD IN THE
WATER BEFORE ME.
Egon Schiele 1910.
WET EVENING.
I WANTED TO GIVE EAR TO THE
EVENING’S COOL BREATHING, TO THE BLACK
WEATHER TREES, I SAY TO THE BLACK
WEATHER TREES, THEN
TO GNATS, LAMENTING,
TO FARMERS’ COARSE FOOTFALLS
TO BELLS’ DISTANT ECHOES.
TO HEAR THE REGATTA TREES,
TO SEE THE WOOD-LINED RACE PATHS,
AND GNATS, SINGING LIKE WIRES IN THE
WINDWINTERLAND – BUT THE GREAT
DARK MAN BROKE THE MUSIC IN THEIR
STRINGS. –
THE RAISED CITY WAS COLD IN THE
WATER BEFORE ME.
Egon Schiele 1910.
Provenance
Arthur Roessler, Wien
Max Wagner, Wien
1987: Privatbesitz, Wien (Ankauf Sotheby’s, London, Aukt. 26./27.11.1987, lot 201, Abb. als Frontispiz des Auktionskataloges
1994: Leopold Museum-Privatstiftung, Wien (Stiftung)
Provenienz lt. Nebehay 1979:
Verbleib unbekannt, als Quelle wird Roessler 1921, S. 24 angegeben.
Max Wagner, Wien
1987: Privatbesitz, Wien (Ankauf Sotheby’s, London, Aukt. 26./27.11.1987, lot 201, Abb. als Frontispiz des Auktionskataloges
1994: Leopold Museum-Privatstiftung, Wien (Stiftung)
Provenienz lt. Nebehay 1979:
Verbleib unbekannt, als Quelle wird Roessler 1921, S. 24 angegeben.
Recorded in
Pfemfert 1914, 4/15, S. 324; Roessler 1921, S. 24; Wiener Bibl. Ges. 1977, S: 23; Werth 2006, S. 369; Leopold Museum 2008, S. 27
Owner
Image credit
Leopold Museum, Vienna
Bibliography
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Schiele 1914aEgon Schiele: “Sonne”; “Nasser Abend”, in: Die Aktion. Wochenschrift für Politik, Literatur und Kunst, year 4, no. 15, 11th April 1914, col. 323–324
PURL: https://www.egonschiele.at/137