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Egon Schiele Häuser am Meer (Houses by the Sea) 1914: Houses by the Sea (Häuser am Meer), 1914, by Egon Schiele: Jenny Steiner, Daisy Hellmann (née Steiner b. in Vienna 22 April 1890 - 5 January 1977) claim against Leopold Museum [18] The Leopold Museum settled with Jenny Steiner's heirs, including Daisy's daughter, in 2012 [19]
Egon Schiele, Portrait of Wally Neuzil. The Leopold Museum has been involved in numerous controversies concerning Nazi looted art. In 1997, a New York Times profile of Leopold described him as a "too passionate" collector, whose tough tactics had led him to keep Nazi looted art, including Schiele's Portrait of Wally, which had belonged to the Jewish art dealer Lea Bondi Jaray. [2]
Self-portrait, 1906 (aged 16) Schiele was born in 1890 in Tulln, Lower Austria.His father, Adolf Schiele, the station master of the Tulln station in the Austrian State Railways, was born in 1851 in Vienna to Karl Ludwig Schiele, a German from Ballenstedt and Aloisia Schimak; Egon Schiele's mother Marie, née Soukup, was born in 1861 in Český Krumlov (Krumau) to Franz Soukup, a Czech father ...
This re-evaluation elevated Schiele’s figurative paintings to a central place in modern art history. Leopold’s lifelong research culminated in the seminal monograph "Egon Schiele – Paintings, Watercolours, Drawings" (1972, German; 1973, English), which provided detailed analyses and over 200 illustrations. The monograph was reprinted in ...
Struggle to recover Egon Schiele‘s “Portrait of Wally” wrongfully expropriated by the Nazis in 1939. Lea Bondi , later Lea Jaray or Lea Bondi-Jaray (12 December 1880 – 1969) was an Austrian art dealer and art collector who was forced to emigrate to Great Britain due to Nazi persecution after the annexation of Austria to the Nazi German ...
Schiele's wife, Edith, served as the model for Seated Woman, which utilizes a limited color palette, empty background, and sharp, edgy lines. Like many of Schiele's other works, the piece employs a distinct style that subverts conventional representations of beauty and instead blends an ugly, distorted feeling with a sensual and erotic aesthetic.
Looted art controversy [ edit ] In 2023 the Manhattan District Attorney seized a drawing by Egon Schiele entitled Portrait of a Man within the framework of a criminal investigation concerning the Nazi-era looting of the collection of Fritz Grunbäum , who was murdered in the Holocaust .
Dämmernde Stadt (City in Twilight) is an oil painting by Egon Schiele, a townscape of Krumau (today: Český Krumlov), completed in 1913. It also known as Die kleine Stadt II (The small town). It was owned until 1930 by Elsa Koditschek, a Jew who survived the Holocaust hidden in Vienna.