6th Egon Schiele Symposium

13 November 2025

Language, writing, poetry, and literature are closely interwoven with Egon Schiele (1890–1918). In 1910, the talented and versatile artist created poems with neologisms, wrote numerous, often lyrical letters to friends and relatives over the years, and demonstrated an interest in books—ranging from literary works to art and non-fiction.

On the one hand, Schiele inherited the library left behind by his father, who died young; on the other hand, he himself collected selected printed works. Thus, he owned a copy of the limited edition of the fairy-tale book Die träumenden Knaben (The Dreaming Boys), designed by the young Oskar Kokoschka and published by the Wiener Werkstätte in 1908, and he acquired the Almanach Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider), published in 1912. Moreover, Schiele maintained contact with several writers and publishers such as Arthur Roessler, Eduard Kosmack, Franz Blei, Karl Otten, Max Roden, Albert Paris von Gütersloh, Franz Pfemfert, and Robert Müller, some of whom he also portrayed.

The 6th Egon Schiele Symposium will engage with specific focal points concerning the artist’s connections to literary works and writers.

All speeches will be given in German, but they will be published in a conference volume (2026) in both German and English.

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