Russian War Prisoner

Prints and Drawings

1916

Egon Schiele
Austrian, 1890-1918

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Egon Schiele
Title: Russian War Prisoner
Place: Austria (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1916
Medium: Opaque watercolor, over graphite, on cream wove paper
Dimensions: 43.8 × 30.8 cm (17 1/4 × 12 3/16 in.)
Credit Line: Given in memory of Gloria Brackstone Solow from Dr. Eugene A. Solow and Family
Reference Number: 1966.172r

Alfred Werner, “The Passion of Egon Schiele,” American Artist 36: 355 (February 1972), p. 31 (ill.).
Judd Tully, “Egon Schiele,” Horizon 28:10 (Dec. 1985), p. 24 (ill.).
Jane Kallir, Egon Schiele: The Complete Works (New York, 1990; expanded and reprinted in 1998), p. 563, no. 1839 (ill.).
Christopher Short, Schiele (London, 1997), pp. 106-107, no. 38 (ill.).
Jane Kallir, Egon Schiele: Drawings and Watercolors (London, 2003), p. 371 (ill.).
Marie-Theres Arnbom and Christoph Wagner-Trenkwitz, “Grüß mich Gott!” Fritz Grünbaum 1880-1941 Eine Biographie, exh. cat., (Vienna, 2005), pp. 156, 164, and 204 (ill.).

Vienna, Kunsthandlung Würthle, “Egon Schiele,” December 1925–January 1926, n.p., cat. 117.
Bern, Gutekunst & Klipstein, “Egon Schiele,” September 8–October 6, 1956, p. 26, cat. 39 (ill.).
New York, Galerie St. Etienne, “Egon Schiele,” January–February 1957, p. 30, cat. 25 (ill.).
Des Moines, Iowa, Des Moines Art Center, “Egon Schiele and the Human Form: Drawings and Watercolors,” September 20–October 31, 1971, n.p., cat. 53 (ill.); traveled to the Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, November 15–December 19, 1971; and The Art Institute of Chicago, January 3–February 13, 1972.
Urbana-Champaign, Ill., Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, “Drawings from the Collections of The Art Institute of Chicago,” April 23–May 14, 1972.
New York, Galerie St. Etienne, “Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele: In Commemoration of the Achievements of Dr. Otto Kallir,” November 11–December 27, 1980, p. 92, cat. 47 (ill.).
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Great Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago: The Harold Joachim Years 1958-1983,” July 24-September 30, 1985, pp. 197-198, cat. 92 (ill.), cat. by Martha Tedeschi; traveled to The St. Louis Art Museum, March 10–May 16, 1986.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Chicago Collects: Selections from the Collection of Dr. Eugene A. Solow,” May 3–August 21, 1988, pp. 4 and 15, cat. 58.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Belligerent Encounters-Graphic Chronicles of War and Revolution, 1500-1945,” July 31-October 23, 2011, no. cat.

Fritz Grünbaum (1880–1941), Vienna, by 1925 [Vienna 1925]; by descent to his wife, Elizabeth (née Herzl; 1898–1942); by descent to her sister, Mathilde Lukacs, Brussels [letter from Eberhard Kornfeld, Sept. 28, 2002]; sold, Gutekunst & Klipstein, Bern, 1956, lot. 39. Galerie St. Etienne, New York, by 1957. David Kimball. Leo Askew. Sold by B. C. Holland, Chicago, to the Art Institute, 1966.

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