Who: Hans-Peter Wipplinger, Verena Gamper, Franz Smola, Sandra Tretter, Elisabeth Leopold, Elisabeth Dutz, Christian Bauer, Jane Kallir, Gemma Blackshaw, Stefan Kutzenberger, Karin Maierhofer, Sandra Maria Dzialek
What: Fourth Egon Schiele Symposium
Where: Leopold Museum online
When: Friday, December 3, free with advance RSVP, 3:45 – 11:30 am
Why: The Leopold Museum, whose Egon Schiele collection comprises 42 paintings, 184 watercolors, drawings, and prints, and numerous writings and miscellaneous texts, will be hosting its fourth Egon Schiele Symposium on December 3, streaming live from Vienna beginning at 3:45 am EST. Interest in Schiele, who died in 1918 at the age of twenty-eight of the Spanish flu, has continued to grow over the last decade, from a centennial exhibition at St. Galerie Etienne to the documentary Portrait of Wally to John Kelly’s remounting of his one-man show Pass the Blutwurst, Bitte.
The symposium, the first of which was held in 2016, features twelve presentations, including one in English by Galerie St. Etienne head and Kallir Research Institute director Jane Kallir, “Reconfiguring Gender: Egon Schiele and the Gay Subculture.” If, like me, you miss Kallir’s extraordinary essays about the gallery’s exhibits, her talk should be a special treat. Below is the full schedule; the symposium will be available for on-demand viewing following the livestream, which will have an interactive Zoom chat.
9:45 am: Welcoming Remarks, with Leopold Museum director Hans-Peter Wipplinger and Leopold Museum Research Center head Verena Gamper
10:00 am: Egon Schiele’s Painting Jugendströmung [Current of Youth] – New Findings About Schiele’s Contribution at the International Art Show Vienna 1909, with Österreichische Galerie Belvedere curator Franz Smola
10:30 am: Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele at the Vienna Art Show in Berlin 1916, with Klimt Foundation deputy director Sandra Tretter
11:00 am: “I Went Through Klimt”: On Egon Schiele’s Painting Hermits and the Faculty Paintings of Gustav Klimt, with Elisabeth Leopold of the Leopold Museum Private Foundation
11:30 am: Schiele’s Death Masks – New Findings of the Ongoing Research at the Albertina’s Egon Schiele Archive, with Albertina curator Elisabeth Dutz
1:30 pm: The Body Electric: Erwin Osen – Egon Schiele, with Leopold Museum Research Center head Verena Gamper
2:00 pm: Erwin Dominik Osen: An Approach, with Egon Schiele Museum curator Christian Bauer
2:30 pm: Reconfiguring Gender: Egon Schiele and the Gay Subculture (English), with Kallir Research Institute director Jane Kallir
3:00 pm: “Dear Curator …”: Correspondence as Care for Erwin Osen’s Lustknabe [Catamite] (English), with art historian and curator Gemma Blackshaw and architectural historian and artist Adam Kaasa
4:00 pm: Blue Lady in Green Nature: A Workshop Report from Silicon Valley – Egon Schiele and Artificial Intelligence, with writer, curator, and literary scholar Stefan Kutzenberger
4:30 pm: Egon Schiele’s Painting Young Mother – Insights into the Research and Restoration Project, with Wien Museum restorer Karin Maierhofer
5:00 pm: Egon Schiele’s Towns – the Leopold Museum Holdings from a Material-Technology Perspective, with Leopold Museum restorer Sandra Maria Dzialek