A painting by Egon Schiele depicting the artist’s uncle and legal guardian has been rediscovered after more than 90 years.
The work “Leopold Czihaczek at the Piano” (1907) was found in a Viennese private collection and will be exhibited publicly for the first time at the Leopold Museum in Austria, which houses the largest and most important collection of works by the great expressionist painter.
The work will be part of the Museum’s NFT (digital copyright certificates) collection, which includes 24 paintings and drawings by Egon Schiele.
The collection was created in collaboration with LaCollection – a new platform with NFT. The money from the NFT will be used for the restoration of the painting and the expansion of the Museum’s Sile collection.
The founder of the Leopold Museum, Rudolf Leopold, was one of the most important supporters of Schiele’s work, who in his short life, interrupted by the Spanish flu, managed to create a pioneering work for his time.
The painting “Leopold Czihaczek at the Piano” shows the painter’s uncle and legal guardian playing the piano in his apartment in the Leopoldstadt district of Vienna.
“After the painting is cleaned and restored, we will have the opportunity to present it to the public as part of our permanent exhibition Vienna 1900,” said Verena Gamber from the Museum’s Research Center.
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