Description
Egon Schiele – The Artist’s Room in Neulengbach, 1911
This hand-painted Egon Schiele painting, The Artist’s Room in Neulengbach, is an oil reproduction of the work he painted in 1911. The original is held by the Wien Museum in Vienna.
A room with nobody in it
The subject is an interior without a figure. A yellow floor takes up almost half the panel, and on it stand a black bed with olive and brown covers, a red chair set against the right edge, and a dark cupboard. At the left a bottle and a shallow dish sit on a dark chest, and folded violet and yellow cloths lie in the lower left corner. On a thin-legged table in the middle of the room there is a small still life with a bowl and a jug.
A homage to Van Gogh
Schiele made the work after seeing paintings by Vincent van Gogh; the National Gallery of Victoria describes it as a direct homage to Van Gogh, alongside the sunflowers he painted in the same period. The arrangement of the room — the bed, the chair, the furniture against the walls and the high viewpoint looking down — follows Van Gogh’s depiction of his own bedroom.
The original’s medium and format
The original is not a canvas: unlike most of Schiele’s work it is painted in oil on wood (on a wooden panel), and it is small — 40 × 31.5 cm (inv. 117203), an upright panel. Jane Kallir’s catalogue lists it as P 220. It is on display at the Wien Museum in Vienna.
Our hand-painted oil reproduction
Our reproduction is hand-painted in oils on canvas and we paint it in the size you choose.
