ANNOUNCEMENT: 5TH EGON SCHIELE SYMPOSIUM AT THE LEOPOLD MUSEUM: NETWORKS AND FRIENDSHIPS

06.11.2023

Presentations by Philipp Blom, Régine Bonnefoit, Tobias Burg, Ulrike Emberger, Laura Feurle, Simone Hönigl, Kerstin Jesse, Alexander Klee and Alexandra Matzner

On Thursday, 9th November 2023, the Leopold Museum’s Director Hans-Peter Wipplinger and Leopold Museum curator Kerstin Jesse, will host the 5th symposium dedicated to Egon Schiele at the auditorium of the Leopold Museum. The theme of this year’s event is the “Networks and Friendships” of Egon Schiele (1890—1918).

“Egon Schiele has become such a household name that it is a downright necessity to shed new light on his art from time to time, and to view his oeuvre from unusual angles. Since 2016, the Leopold Museum has been organizing regular symposia with international speakers who approach the artist’s work from various perspectives.”
Hans-Peter Wipplinger, Director, Leopold Museum

The 2023 Schiele Symposium focuses on Egon Schiele’s friendships with other artists, including Albert Paris Gütersloh, Felix Albrecht Harta, Max Oppenheimer and Oskar Kokoschka, who – along with Richard Gerstl, Schiele and Oppenheimer – was arguably the most eminent Austrian Expressionist. This year’s keynote speech explores the field of tension between form and function of art in the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. Further presentations uncover Schiele’s connections with the collector and museum founder Karl Ernst Osthaus, as well with the painter Adolf Hölzel – an important pioneer of Modernism. Additionally, the symposium affords fascinating insights into the preservation of moveable cultural assets using the example of Schiele’s works, and introduces contemporary terminologies and concepts with a view to the art production of Vienna’s “Neukunst” [New Art].

5TH EGON SCHIELE SYMPOSIUM AT THE LEOPOLD MUSEUM: NETWORKS AND FRIENDSHIPS

Leopold Museum, Auditorium, Level -1

PROGRAMME:

10 am
Welcoming address
Hans Peter-Wipplinger, Director, Leopold Museum
Kerstin Jesse, curator,  Leopold Museum

10.30 am
Wien 1914 — Körper, Fassaden, Identitäten [Vienna 1914 – Bodies, Facades, Identities]
Philipp Blom, writer and historian

11.15 am
„Ich bedaure, dass Sie unter so grossen Schwierigkeiten schaffen müssen.“
Karl-Ernst Osthaus als früher Sammler Egon Schieles
[“I regret that you have to work under such difficult conditions.”
Karl-Ernst Osthaus as Egon Schiele’s Early Collector]
Tobias Burg, curator, Museum Folkwang Essen

11.45 am
In „Verschiedenheit“ vereint – Gütersloh und Schiele
[United in “Distinctness” – Gütersloh and Schiele]
Alexandra Matzner, freelance art historian and curator, ARTinWORDS

12 pm
Lunch break

1.30 pm
„Schattenboxen“ mit einem Verstorbenen – Kokoschkas (Nicht-)Verhältnis zu Schiele
[“Shadow Boxing” with a Deceased – Kokoschka’s (Non-)Relationship with Schiele]
Régine Bonnefoit, art historian and professor, Université de Neuchâtel, Institut d'histoire de l'art et muséologie

2 pm
Max Oppenheimer, genannt MOPP: ein „Zeit- und Streitgenosse“ Egon Schieles
[Max Oppenheimer, called MOPP: Egon Schiele’s Friend and Rival]
Kerstin Jesse, curator, Leopold Museum

2.30 pm
„Nachmittags waren wir bei Harta“ – Egon Schiele und Felix Albrecht Harta
[“In the afternoon, we visited Harta” – Egon Schiele and Felix Albrecht Harta]
Simone Hönigl, research assistant, Egon Schiele Documentation Center, Leopold Museum

3 pm
Coffee break

3.30 pm
Egon Schiele und Adolf Hölzel. Networking in Zeiten des Krieges
[Egon Schiele and Adolf Hölzel. Networking in Times of War]
Alexander Klee, curator, Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna

4 pm
Denkende Hände? Zur Theorie der künstlerischen Praxis in der Wiener ‚Neukunst‘
[Thinking Hands? On the Theory of the Artistic Practice of Vienna’s “Neukunst”]
Laura Feurle, research assistant and doctoral candidate (art history), University of Konstanz

4.30 pm
Geschützt! Gerettet! Freigegeben! Egon Schiele und der Denkmalschutz
[Protected! Saved! Released! Egon Schiele and Monument Protection]
Ulrike Emberger, head of the department of movable monuments – international transfer of cultural property, Federal Monuments Office Vienna

5 pm
Final discussion/end

Kindly supported by Larry Heller, USA
Many thanks to Wiener Städtische Versicherungsverein, partner of the Leopold Museum

Free admission! Please register by Tuesday, 7th November 2023 at:

www.leopoldmuseum.org/symposium

symposium@leopoldmuseum.org

The Egon Schiele Documentation Center at the Leopold Museum is dedicated to the scientific exploration of the artist’s oeuvre. Publications and reviews are constantly being archived and made accessible to research. The Egon Schiele Datenbank der Autografen [Egon Schiele Autograph Database] further provides online access to Egon Schiele’s transcripts and correspondence from the collections of Austrian and international museums and private collections.

The Egon Schiele Documentation Center is open to visitors by appointment from Tuesday to Thursday from 1 pm to 6 pm.

Leopold Museum in Vienna’s MuseumsQuartier, Museumsplatz 1, 1070 Vienna
leopoldmuseum.org
schiele-dokumentation@leopoldmuseum.org

Conference Volumes 1-4 on the Egon Schiele Symposia at the Leopold Museum, 2016/2017/2019/2021

Ed. by Hans-Peter Wipplinger or Verena Gamper and Hans-Peter Wipplinger. With essays by Gemma Blackshaw, Sandra Maria Dzialek, Matthias Haldemann, Allan Janik, Eric R. Kandel, Jane Kallir, Elisabeth Leopold, Elisabeth von Samsonow, Patrick Werkner, Eva Werth, and many others.

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