The drawing by Egon Schiele (1890-1918) newly acquired by the Tyrolean State Museum Ferdinandeum association, which depicts the Wiltener Leuthaus in Innsbruck, will be presented at Tyrolean Folk Art Museum.
Elisabeth Dutz (Chief Curator of the Graphic Collection of the Albertina/Vienna) will give a lecture on Egon Schiele as a draughtsman.
Lukas Madersbacher, deputy chairman of the Tyrolean State Museum Ferdinandeum association, on the drawing:
“It is revealing to see how Egon Schiele (1890-1918) depicted the former courthouse (Leuthaus in Wilten). Instead of including one of the two baroque churches, the Wilten basilica or the collegiate church, as was common in contemporary photographs, he isolated the building and thus emphasised the clarity of its cubic form. It is the selective view of the elementary form that characterises this and all his drawings. The sheet was probably created on 9 June 1917. The following day, Schiele wrote to his wife: ‘Yesterday Saturday morning I was on Mount Isel, at noon at the Innsbruck railway station restaurant and in the afternoon with Grünwald at Lansersee near Igels – in the evening at the Hungerburg … Now I’m going to draw farmhouses’.”