Egon Schiele
Austrian, 1890-1918

Russian War Prisoner, 1916

Gouache, graphite, and touches of watercolor on cream wove paper
438 x 308 mm
Given in memory of Gloria Brackstone Solow from Dr. Eugene A. Solow and Family, 1966.172r

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

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.

Publication History

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.).

Ownership History

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 [according to a letter from Eberhard Kornfeld, Septemper 28, 2002 in curatorial file]; 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.