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Leopold Museum, Vienna, Inv. 5649

Vienna

29th Jan. 1913 (handwritten)

Black ink on paper

26,9 x 17,4 cm

[Translation:]

29th January 1913

Read yesterday’s Arbeiterzeitung from Tuesday the 28th [1]

EGON
SCHIELE
1913.

The two paintings “Jesuits” and “Procession”, [2] which in the Munich Secession in the Sonderbund exhibition Cologne 1912 ... [3] (in which all the youngest from all countries, coming after van Gogh, Cezanne and Gauguin, [4] have been represented), at the same time 127 van Goghs were on view, and was the most outstanding and select exhibition of the present time, organized by German gallery directors. The above paintings were in the monumental exhibition in Dresden, furthermore in Stuttgart and Karlsruhe, and will be shown in February at Miethke as a private collection of Dr. Reichel in Vienna, [5] together with pictures from above collection by Romako, Kokoschka, Gütersloh, Faistauer, van Gogh, Munch, Toulouse Lautrec, Oppenheimer, [6] and several other authoritative young artists.


[envelope:]
To Mr. Leopold Czihaczek
Vienna II
Zirkusgasse 47, 2nd Floor
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EGON SCHIELE VIENNA
XIII. H.[ietzinger] HAUPTSTR.[aße] 101.

[1] Probably: Arthur Roessler: “Feuilleton. Sezession. Ausstellung der jungen Künstlerschaft Österreichs.”, in: Arbeiter Zeitung, 28th Jan. 1913, pp. 1–4.
[2] Jesuits, 1911, K P197; Procession, 1911, K P198.
[3] Frühjahr-Ausstellung der Münchener Secession, Munich Secession, Glaspalast, 2nd Mar.–20th Apr. 1912; Internationale Kunst-Ausstellung des Sonderbundes westdeutscher Kunstfreunde und Künstler, Städtische Ausstellungshalle am Aachener Tor, Cologne, 25th May–30th Sept. 1912.
[4] Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890), Paul Cézanne (1839–1906), Paul Gauguin (1848–1903).
[5] Privatsammlung Dr. Oskar Reichel, Wien, Galerie Miethke, Vienna, 13th–c. 28th Feb. 1913.
[6] Anton Romako (1832–1889), Oskar Kokoschka (1886–1980), Albert Paris Gütersloh (1887–1973), Anton Faistauer (1887–1930), Edvard Munch (1863–1944), Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864–1901), Max Oppenheimer (1885–1954).

2010: im Kinsky Kunstauktionen, Wien, 79. Aukt., 22.06.2010, lot 29

Provenienz lt. Nebehay 1979:
Gertrude Peschka G. P. 28

Leopold Museum, Vienna