--- type: exposition title: Egon Schiele language: en url: "https://www.belvedere.at/en/egon-schiele-0" --- # Egon Schiele ## The Making of a Collection ![Oil on canvas, 100 x 170 cm](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/header_cropped_1920x480_fp/public/jart-images/_499086577966.jpg.webp?itok=Og9L1stG) **Duration:** 19 October 2018 - 17 February 2019 **“\[…\] I think it may be time for at least one painting to be hanging at the St.-G. \[Staatsgalerie\].”** Egon Schiele to his friend and patron Arthur Roessler, 21 June 1916 His wish would be fulfilled as there are now a total of twenty works by Egon Schiele in the Belvedere’s collection, including two permanent loans. 2018 is the centenary of his death. Marking this occasion, an in-depth exhibition considers all of the artist’s works that are – or were – in the Belvedere’s collection. It traces the genesis of a collection and also presents new findings about Schiele’s works. Highlights include *Eduard Kosmack*, *Portrait of Wally Neuzil*, *Facade of a House*, *Death and Maiden*, *Embrace*, and *Four Trees*. Curator Kerstin Jesse answers questions about the works’ acquisition and motifs, shedding light, for example, on the people portrayed in the images. The show is enriched by many loans, especially preliminary studies and sketches related to the works at the Belvedere. Preparations for the exhibition included scientific analyses resulting in new findings about the artist’s painting technique and working methods and these will also be presented for the first time. In addition, it features a selection of papers and documents from the archives, some which have never been on public view before and offer deeper insights into the acquisition histories and the fates of individual collectors. Curator: Kerstin Jesse \#SchieleBelvedere *With the Vienna start-up initiated free smartphone app Artivive, works in the exhibition can be brought to life. The Artivive app is available free of charge on Google Play and the Apple's App Store. For further information and to download the app, please visit: artivive.com* ## Impressions - ![Oil on canvas, 100 x 170 cm — Egon Schiele, Die Umarmung, 1917 — © Belvedere, Vienna](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/jart-images/_499086577966_0.jpg.webp?itok=z76czgSQ) - ![Oil on canvas, 150 x 180 cm — Egon Schiele, Tod und Mädchen, 1915 — © Belvedere, Vienna](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/jart-images/_499086419382.jpg.webp?itok=MK9gPqkS) - ![Oil on canvas, 111 x 142 cm — Egon Schiele, House Wall (Windows), 1914 — © Belvedere Vienna](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/jart-images/_499086517079.jpg.webp?itok=FhkL8UJz) - ![Oil on canvas, 150 × 159,8 cm — Egon Schiele, Mother with two Children III, 1915-17 — Photo: Johannes Stoll © Belvedere, Vienna](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/jart-images/_529801172849.jpg.webp?itok=buDn6jpo) - ![Egon Schiele — City on the Blue River II — © Belvedere, Vienna](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/jart-images/_529801174618.jpg.webp?itok=CTQBhYvZ) - ![Egon Schiele — Detail from City on the Blue River II, 1911 — © Belvedere Vienna, conservation department](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/jart-images/_529801174626.jpg.webp?itok=f4Vv1H0L) - ![Egon Schiele — Otto Bauer, Photograph of the music room in Josef Morgenstern’s apartment with the painting Four Trees. — © Bildarchiv des Belvedere, Vienna](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/jart-images/_529801172861.jpg.webp?itok=h3l6wBZ9) - ![Egon Schiele — Archive materials of the Belvedere to the works of Egon Schiele — Photo: Stefan Lehner © Belvedere, Vienna](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/jart-images/_532413270359.jpg.webp?itok=OcUynLCM) - ![Egon Schiele — Infrared reflectography of Wife of the artist Edith Schiele — © Restoration Department Belvedere](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/jart-images/_532413270358.jpg.webp?itok=OE4VYFHV) - ![Egon Schiele — Detail from City on the Blue River II — © Restoration Department Belvedere](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/jart-images/_532413270356.jpg.webp?itok=l7qYdHMI) - ![Egon Schiele — Detail from Portrait of Eduard Kosmack — © Restoration Department Belvedere](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/jart-images/_532413270355.jpg.webp?itok=E9sw_Eg6) - ![Egon Schiele — Detail from Portrait Dr. Franz Martin Haberditzl — © Restoration Department Belvedere](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/jart-images/_532413270354.jpg.webp?itok=Y8UCuBpY) - ![oil on wood, 32 x 39,8 cm — Egon Schiele, Portrait of Wally Neuzil, 1912 — © Photograph Leopold Museum, Vienna/Manfred Thumberger](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/jart-images/_529801174987.jpg.webp?itok=YK7UutqE) - ![Oil on canvas, 70 × 80,5 cm — Cardinal and Nun (Caress), 1912 — © Leopold Museum, Vienna](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/jart-images/_532413273340.jpg.webp?itok=bSWCMuly) - ![Pencil and watercolor on paper, laid down on cardboard, 51.8 × 41 cm — Egon Schiele Seated Couple, 1915 — © Albertina, Vienna](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/jart-images/_532413273892.jpg.webp?itok=QgkDEh3g) - ![Gouache and crayon on paper, 45 × 29.5 cm — Egon Schiele Man and Woman (Embrace), 1917 — Yageo Foundation Collection, Taiwan, Photo: © Richard Nagy Ltd., London](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/jart-images/_532413273896.jpg.webp?itok=aQn0H1dW) - ![Oil on cardboard, 21.3 × 35.2 cm — Egon Schiele Meadow Landscape with Houses, 1907 — Private collection © Belvedere, Vienna](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/jart-images/_532413273903.jpg.webp?itok=UqJFVADp) - ![Egon Schiele — Exhibition view "Egon Schiele. The Making of a Collection" — Photo: Johannes Stoll, © Belvedere, Vienna](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/jart-images/_532413313500.jpg.webp?itok=VEtICauD) - ![Egon Schiele — Exhibition view "Egon Schiele. The Making of a Collection" — Photo: Johannes Stoll, © Belvedere, Vienna](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/jart-images/_532413313507.jpg.webp?itok=3u9aCdvV) - ![Egon Schiele — Exhibition view "Egon Schiele. The Making of a Collection" — Photo: Johannes Stoll, © Belvedere, Vienna](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/jart-images/_532413313505.jpg.webp?itok=NgPqMSzP) - ![oil on canvas, 99,8 x 99,5 cm — Egon Schiele, Portrait of Eduard Kosmack, 1910 — © Belvedere, Vienna](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/jart-images/_499086577967.jpg.webp?itok=oypd0dXS) - ![Egon Schiele — Exhibition view "Egon Schiele. The Making of a Collection" — Photo: Johannes Stoll, © Belvedere, Vienna](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/jart-images/_532413313504.jpg.webp?itok=6uKmrOzy) - ![Egon Schiele — Exhibition view "Egon Schiele. The Making of a Collection" — Photo: Johannes Stoll, © Belvedere, Vienna](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/jart-images/_532413313512.jpg.webp?itok=4P5CHnG7)