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Modern Perspectives: The Collection of Rolf & Margit Weinberg
Gewitterberg (Kapelle auf dem Kreuzberg bei Krumau) (Thunderstorm Mountain (Chapel on Kreuzberg near Krumau))
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2,000,000 - 3,000,000 USD
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Modern Perspectives: The Collection of Rolf & Margit Weinberg
Egon Schiele
(1890 - 1918)
Gewitterberg (Kapelle auf dem Kreuzberg bei Krumau) (Thunderstorm Mountain (Chapel on Kreuzberg near Krumau))
oil on canvas laid down on board
13 ⅞ by 25 ⅞ in.
35.1 by 65.6 cm.
Executed in 1910.
Heinrich Benesch, Vienna
Josef Adler, Vienna (acquired by 1930)
Wilhemine Walny, Vienna (acquired from the above)
Otto Fleischmann, Vienna and Topeka (probably acquired by 1949)
Private Collection (acquired by descent from the above)
Galerie St. Etienne, New York (acquired from the above)
Acquired from the above in 1994 by the present owner
Otto Nierenstein, Egon Schiele, Persönlichkeit und Werk, 1930, no. X
Otto Kallir, Egon Schiele: Oeuvre Catalogue of the Paintings, Vienna, 1966, no. 121, p. 240; p. 241, illustrated (titled Kapelle auf einem Berg)
Rudolf Leopold, Egon Schiele—Gemälde, Aquarelle, Zeichnungen, Salzburg, 1972, no. 162
Gianfranco Malafarina, Tout l’oeuvre peint de Schiele, Paris, 1983, no. 154, p. 95, illustrated (titled Chapelle sur le Kreuzberg pres de Krumau)
Exh. Cat., Vienna, Albertina, Egon Schiele in der Albertina: die Zeichnungen und Aquarelle aus eigenem Besitz: Graphische Sammlung Albertina, 1990, p. 48, illustrated
Jane Kallir, Egon Schiele: The Complete Works, New York, 1990, no. 185, p. 297, illustrated
Franz E. Wischin, Egon Schiele und Krumau: Die Stadt am blauen Fluss, Vienna, 1994, pp. 112-13, illustrated in color
Jane Kallir, Egon Schiele: The Complete Works, New York, 1998, no. 185, p. 297, illustrated
Kai Artinger, Egon Schiele: Life and Work, Cologne, 1999, p. 21, illustrated in color (titled Stormy Mountain)
Exh. Cat., Vienna, Leopold Museum, Egon Schiele: Landscapes, 2004-05, p. 64, illustrated in color
Exh. Cat., Vienna, Albertina, Egon Schiele, 2005-06, p. 132, illustrated in color
Leopold Museum, ed., Egon Schiele, Letters and Poems 1910-1912 From the Leopold Collection, Munich, 2008, p. 21, illustrated in color
Tobias Natter, Egon Schiele: Sämtliche Gemälde 1909–1918, Cologne, 2017, no. 33
Kallir Research Institute, "P185, Thunderstorm Mountain (Chapel on Kreuzberg near Krumau)," Egon Schiele, The Complete Works Online, https://egonschieleonline.org/works/paintings/work# (accessed 7 April 2025)
Vienna, Kunsthandlung Würthle, Egon Schiele, 1925-26, no. 16
Berlin, Kunsthandlung Fritz Gurlitt, Tsugouharu Foujita, Egon Schiele, 1926, no. 8
Frankfurt, M. Goldschmidt & Co, Egon Schiele, 1926
Vienna, Neue Galerie, Egon Schiele: Gedächtnis-Ausstellung zum 30. Todestag, 1948, p. 8, no. 25 (titled Kapelle auf einem Berg)
Lawrence, Kansas, University of Kansas Museum of Art, Paintings, Drawings and Prints of the 19th and 20th Centuries—The Collection of Dr. and Mrs. Otto Fleischmann, 1960-61, no. 90 (titled House on a Hill)
New York, Galerie St. Etienne, Austria's Expressionism, 1981, no. 39, p. 40, illustrated
Venice, Palazzo Grassi, XLI. Biennale di Venezia: Le Arti a Vienna, dalla sezessione alla caduta dell' Imperio Asburgico, 1984, no. 1186
Aarau, Aargauer Kunsthaus; Wuppertal, Von de Heydt-Museum; Dresden, Gemäldegalerie Neue Meister and Lausanne, Fondation de l'Hermitage, El Greco bis Mondrian, 1996, n.n., p. 135 illustrated in color
Lugano, Museo d'Arte Moderna, Egon Schiele, 2003, no. 13, p. 82, illustrated in color; p. 188, illustrated (titled Temporale in montagna)
Kunsthaus Zürich, Egon Schiele—Jenny Saville, 2014-15, no. 22, p. 53, illustrated in color
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