3492

Nicht gelistet/Not listed

Courtesy Kallir Research Institute, New York

Vienna

31st Oct. 1915 (handwritten)

Ink on paper

24 x 19,5 cm

[Translation:]

Last day of October, 1915.
For such a long time I haven’t
written a single word in here.
But it’s the best indication that
things are good, as I only feel
the need to write
when my emotional state
is poor. It’s not right,
really. I should not ignore
the happy times, since, if I were
to pick up this book again
after many years, I must think
there hadn’t been a single hour
in my life when the sun shone
for me. – Arnot [1] bought
my portrait, [2] it’s a pity that
a photograph wasn’t taken
to remember it by later.
||
In whose room shall I be
hung? A strange thought –
not to know where a work
one has come to love will end up,
which people I will smile
down upon.

[1] Guido Arnot, art dealer (1876–1946); Galerie Arnot, Vienna.
[2] Portrait of the Artist’s Wife, Standing, 1915, K P290.

Vollständige Transkription abgedruckt in:
Edith Schiele: „Das Tagebuch. ‚Ich werde dieses Buch nicht Tagebuch heißen, – sondern Trostbuch‘“, in: Zeiten des Umbruchs. Egon Schieles letzte Jahre 1914–1918, hrsg. von Kerstin Jesse/Jane Kallir/Hans-Peter Wipplinger, Wien 2025, S. 50–77 (Ausst.-Kat. Leopold Museum, Wien, 28.03.–13.07.2025).

Courtesy Kallir Research Institute, New York