Description
Egon Schiele – The Lyricist
Egon Schiele – The Lyricist, 1911
This hand-painted Egon Schiele painting, The Lyricist, is an oil reproduction of a self-portrait from 1911. The original is held at the Leopold Museum in Vienna.
A self-portrait as a lyric poet
Schiele depicts himself as a lyric poet: the body is sharply contorted, the head inclined steeply to the left, and around it opens a white, nimbus-like halo.
Painted at speed
He carried the work out rapidly, with no underdrawing beneath the paint, which gives it a direct, almost improvised force of stroke.
The first solo exhibition
The work was shown at Schiele’s first solo exhibition at the Galerie Miethke in Vienna in April 1911 and reproduced in the accompanying publication alongside a text by Albert Paris Gütersloh (1887–1973).
The original’s medium and format
The original is oil on canvas, measuring 80.5 × 80 cm (inv. 450).
Provenance
From Schiele’s estate (1918) the painting passed to Arthur Stemmer (Vienna/London, before 1930 to 1954) and then to Rudolf Leopold (1954–1994); 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.
