What were the women in Egon Schiele’s steamy portraits thinking? Novelist Sophie Haydock spoke with Artnet News about how she brought the artist's muses to life:
, Haydock’s debut novel, Schiele shares the narrative with four women whom he immortalized on paper and canvas in varied states of undress: his sister, Gertrude Schiele; his wife, Edith Harms; his sister-in-law, Adele Harms; and his mistress, Walburga “Wally” Neuzil . In Haydock’s telling, these were not just artist’s muses, passive beauties waiting to be captured by an artistic genius.
In your research, you learned that in her old age, Adele told an art historian she had an affair with Schiele. What can you tell us about that?, a famous scholar from Texas who’s in her 80s now. In the 1960s, she was the first person to go to Austria and record the locations that were associated with Egon Schiele. She went to Tulln, where he grew up next to the railway tracks, and Neulengbach, where he was imprisoned, and found his prison cell.
I think so. Rivalry between women is learned and is problematic. Women do feel pitted against one another for male attention. That’s certainly something I observed in my early 20s. Wally was only 17 when she met the artist, and the artist himself was such a young man. I think telling the story of them in their thirties, there would’ve been far less of that kind of drama. But from what I could tell, Edith was threatened by Wally and how popular her artwork had been.
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