Description
Egon Schiele – Four Trees
Egon Schiele – Four Trees (Chestnut Avenue in Autumn), 1917
This hand-painted Egon Schiele painting, Four Trees (originally Vier Bäume – Kastanienallee im Herbst), is an oil reproduction of one of his best-known landscapes, painted in 1917.
The scene
Four chestnut trees in different stages of foliage stand in a row before a mountain; behind them the sky graduates from blue to orange and red. The trees are spaced rhythmically, almost like figures — typical of Schiele’s late landscape style.
The original’s medium and format
The original is oil on canvas, measuring 110.5 × 141 cm (inv. 3917), in horizontal format.
Provenance and restitution
Before 1938 the painting hung in the Vienna home of Josef Morgenstern, a Jewish commercial agent; fleeing after the Anschluss, he left it for safekeeping and was later deported and murdered at Auschwitz. The Belvedere acquired it in 1943. In 2020 the Austrian Art Restitution Advisory Board (Kunstrückgabebeirat) recommended its restitution to the Morgenstern heirs.
Interwar exhibitions
While in Morgenstern’s ownership the painting was shown at the Neue Galerie in Vienna (1928) and the Kunsthaus in Zurich (1930).
Our hand-painted oil reproduction
Our reproduction is hand-painted in oil on canvas and painted in the size you choose.
