Letter from Egon Schiele to Margarete Partonek
Leopold Museum, Vienna
ESDA ID
1893
Nebehay 1979
Nicht gelistet/Not listed
Credit line
Leopold Museum, Vienna, Inv. 5363
Date
March 1906 (inferred from content)
Material/technique
Black ink on paper
Dimensions
20,8 x 15,9 cm (page)
Transcription
[Translation:]
What were you looking at yesterday at ¼ 8 hr when you were still with Miss Herm.[ine] B. and Miss L. Schimpf? [1]
Please write something to me again, I would be very pleased.
Are you perhaps mad at me when I say “Good day” or “Greet God”?
Beloved, make my wish come true and write something to me!
The word “Sie” [you, formal] sounds so strange, won’t you drop the “Sie” and switch to a different one? — — — —
You (“Du” [you, informal]) must pardon my scribblings, I could not write otherwise, since I’m away in danger.
Farewell, goodbye
Be kissed my Gretl.
ES.
||
TO MISS
MARG. PARTONEK
LOCO.
What were you looking at yesterday at ¼ 8 hr when you were still with Miss Herm.[ine] B. and Miss L. Schimpf? [1]
Please write something to me again, I would be very pleased.
Are you perhaps mad at me when I say “Good day” or “Greet God”?
Beloved, make my wish come true and write something to me!
The word “Sie” [you, formal] sounds so strange, won’t you drop the “Sie” and switch to a different one? — — — —
You (“Du” [you, informal]) must pardon my scribblings, I could not write otherwise, since I’m away in danger.
Farewell, goodbye
Be kissed my Gretl.
ES.
||
TO MISS
MARG. PARTONEK
LOCO.
Annotations
[1] Hermine B., L. Schimpf: from the circle of friends in Klosterneuburg.
Provenance
Gretel Partonek, Neu-Ofen
Familie Partonek, Salnau
1959: Dorotheum, Wien, Aukt. 12.02.1959, Lot 318
2007: Leopold Museum-Privatstiftung, Wien (Ankauf Galerie Hassfurther, Wien, Aukt. 29.11.2007, Kat. 24, S. 46-47)
Familie Partonek, Salnau
1959: Dorotheum, Wien, Aukt. 12.02.1959, Lot 318
2007: Leopold Museum-Privatstiftung, Wien (Ankauf Galerie Hassfurther, Wien, Aukt. 29.11.2007, Kat. 24, S. 46-47)
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Leopold Museum, Vienna
PURL: https://www.egonschiele.at/1893