Description
Egon Schiele – House Wall on the River
Egon Schiele – House Wall on the River, 1915
This hand-painted Egon Schiele painting, House Wall on the River, is an oil reproduction of a façade scene from 1915. The original is held at the Leopold Museum in Vienna.
The scene
The subject is the façade of the former Church of Saint Judoc on the left bank of the Vltava (Moldau) in Krumau (today Český Krumlov). Schiele views the wall head-on and turns it into an almost abstract pattern of windows and plaster.
Laundry on the wall
Into the façade he weaves colourful pieces of laundry hanging from the windows; these bright accents hint at the lives of the people behind the walls.
The original’s medium and format
The original is oil on canvas, measuring 109.5 × 140 cm (inv. 468).
Provenance
The painting was owned by the Böhler family (Heinrich Böhler of Vienna and St. Moritz, then Mabel Böhler of Lugano) before Rudolf Leopold acquired it in the 1950s; it is now at the Leopold Museum in Vienna.
Our hand-painted oil reproduction
Our reproduction is hand-painted in oil on canvas and painted in the size you choose.
