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Property from a Private Collection, Switzerland

Egon Schiele

Tote Stadt IV (Blick über Dächer auf Häuserfassaden des Krumauer Ringplatzes) (Dead City IV (View across Roofs of Ringplatz Facades in Krumau))

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June 24, 06:00 PM GMT

Estimate

2,500,000 - 3,500,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Egon Schiele

1890 - 1918


Tote Stadt IV (Blick über Dächer auf Häuserfassaden des Krumauer Ringplatzes) (Dead City IV (View across Roofs of Ringplatz Facades in Krumau))

signed EGON SCHIELE and dated 1912 (lower right)

oil on panel

36.8 by 29.3 cm. 14½ by 11½ in.

Executed in 1912.

Emil Toepfer, Vienna

Otto Nirenstein, Vienna (acquired by 1927)

Neue Galerie, Vienna (acquired from the above by 1930 and until at least 1948)

Private Collection, Austria

Dorotheum, Vienna, 15 December 1978, lot 1492 (consigned by the above)

Private Collection, Switzerland (acquired from the above sale)

Thence by descent to the present owner

Vienna, Neue Galerie, Egon Schiele, 1923, no. 15 (titled Stadt am Fluss)

The Hague, Geementemuseum; Rotterdam, Kunstkring and Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Oostenrijksche Schilderijen en Kunstnijverheid 1900-1927, 1927-28, no. 18 (titled Stad aan het blauwe water)

Vienna, Hagenbund and Vienna, Neue Galerie, Gedächtnisausstellung Egon Schiele, 1928, no. 29, n.p., illustrated (titled Stadt am blauen Fluss)

Zurich, Kunsthaus, Ausstellung, 1930, no. 185 (titled Die Stadt am blauen Fluss)

Vienna, Neue Galerie, Gedächtnis-Ausstellung Egon Schiele, 1948, no. 30 (titled Tote Stadt III)

Otto Nirenstein, Egon Schiele, Persönlichkeit und Werk, 1930, no. 113, pl. 78, illustrated (titled Tote Stadt III)

Otto Kallir, Egon Schiele. Œuvre-Katalog der Gemälde, Vienna, 1966, no. 168, p. 339, illustrated (titled Tote Stadt II)

Rudolf Leopold, Egon Schiele, New York, 1973, no. 206, p. 568, illustrated

Gianfranco Malafarina, L'Opera di Schiele, Milan, 1982, no. 212, p. 101, illustrated

Gianfranco Malafarina, Tout l'œuvre peint de Schiele, Paris, 1983, no. 212, p. 101, illustrated

Josef Kroutvor, Egon Schiele a Český Krumlov, Krumlov, 1990, p. 28, illustrated (titled Krumau)

Franz E. Wischin, Egon Schiele und Krumau: Die Stadt am blauen Fluß, Vienna, 1994, p. 159, illustrated in colour

Pia Müller-Tamm, ed., Egon Schiele: Inszenierung und Identität, Cologne, 1995, p. 173, fig. 51, illustrated

Jane Kallir, Egon Schiele: The Complete Works, 1998, no. 244, p. 314, illustrated

Exh. Cat., Munich, Leopold Museum, Egon Schiele: Landschaften, 2004, p. 93, illustrated in colour (titled (Blick über Dächer auf Häuserfassaden des Krumauer Rathausplatzes) (Tote Stadt V))

Tobias G. Natter, Egon Schiele: The Complete Paintings 1909-1918, Cologne, 2017, no. 95, p. 516, illustrated in colour (titled Dead City IV (City on the River, also: City on the Blue River IV))

Rudolf Leopold, Egon Schiele Paintings Watercolours Drawings, New York, 2020, no. 206, p. 590, illustrated in colour

Kallir Research Institute, "P244, Dead City IV (View across Roofs of Ringplatz Facades in Krumau)" Egon Schiele, The Complete Works Online, https://egonschieleonline.org/works/paintings/work/p244 (accessed 9 June 2026)