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Leopold Museum, Vienna, Inv. 4500

Altmünster on Traunsee

21st July 1913 (handwritten)

Black ink, pencil on paper

22,5 x 17,6 cm (page)

[Translation:]

21st July 1913.
Dear Peschka!
The weather has been very bad so far; the lake here would be very beautiful, the most beautiful is the Traunstein. – The lakes in Carinthia, however, and the entire area there are far more generous and majestic. Furthermore, it is very expensive here, 4 K [Kronen] per day for a room with farmers. – Reininghaus [1] owes me 600 K, I am waiting for that, then I can hopefully pay the entire sum for the gravestone. – Please [note] the following dimensions:

[Sketch, dimensioned and labeled:]
Painting
Flowers.
2 meters
2 meters
1,5 cm

one block of concrete
200 cm high
1.50 cm wide
1.20 cm thick towards the back
In front of it, a framing around the entire perimeter of the grave, 20 cm high above the ground, resulting in a 10 cm-thick wall. – One needs to know how much space is useable, that’s why I’m sending you a few Kronen tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, so you may inquire about it on Sunday in Tulln; then you need to write me these measurements
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Rößler [2] told me the following: the ceramic workshop owned by Forstner [3], who made the Stocklet-frieze [!], would also be happy to make a picture of mine for that purpose, if I give Forstner the design; so Rößler will do that for me. – For now, you have to go to Tulln and find out how much space one can use. – I can’t really write Sturm, because I had a thing with him once. – Instead, go straight to Hauer [4] XIX. Silbergasse 40, and for the time being ask if he is already here, nothing else, this let me know presently and I can then write him about it. Also write me how my mother [5] stands towards me. – I think I’ll go to Neuötting in the next few days, because it won’t cost me anything there. – Maybe in August we can stay somewhere near Trieste or on the Istrian coast; in the Alps it’s too bad. Write to me
Warm greetings Egon Schiele
Altmünster/ [on] Traunsee
As per address: Arthur Rößler Haus Gaigg. Until 25 July?

[1] Carl Reininghaus, industrialist (1857–1929).
[2] Arthur Roessler, writer (1877–1955).
[3] Leopold Forstner (1878–1936).
[4] Franz Hauer, restaurant owner (1866–1914).
[5] Marie Schiele, née Soukop (1862–1935).

Privatbesitz, Wien
1994: Leopold Museum-Privatstiftung, Wien

Provenienz lt. Nebehay 1979:
Verbleib unbekannt, als Quelle wird Roessler 1921, S. 103-104 angegeben.

Roessler 1921, p. 103/104

Leopold Museum, Vienna