Description
Egon Schiele – Trude Engel
Egon Schiele – Portrait of Trude Engel
This hand-painted Egon Schiele painting, Portrait of Trude Engel, is an oil reproduction of a portrait the artist painted around 1913.
Who is portrayed
The sitter is Trude Engel, daughter of Schiele’s dentist Dr. Hermann Engel in Vienna. Schiele paid for his dental treatment with paintings, and this portrait was among them.
The knife and the reused canvas
Trude is said to have disliked the portrait and stabbed it with a knife; the puncture marks are visible on the reverse, glued and retouched (presumably by Schiele himself). X-ray examination showed that the artist had reused an older canvas — remains of an earlier painting lie beneath the visible picture.
The original’s medium, format and date
The original is oil on canvas, measuring 100 × 100 cm. Its dating is debated among scholars — years from 1911 to 1913 are cited — but the work is most often placed around 1913.
Provenance
From the Engel family the portrait passed into the collection of the art dealer Wolfgang Gurlitt — founder of the Neue Galerie der Stadt Linz, the predecessor of today’s Lentos — where it was already catalogued in 1948. In the early 1950s the City of Linz purchased it from Gurlitt.
Our hand-painted oil reproduction
Our reproduction is hand-painted in oil on canvas and painted in the size you choose.
