Wally Neuzil

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Wally , oil painting by Egon Schiele, Leopold Museum , Vienna, 1912

Wally (Walburga) Neuzil (born on August 19, 1894 as Walburga Pfneisl in Tattendorf , Lower Austria; died on December 25, 1917 in Sinj , Dalmatia) was a model of Egon Schiele and his partner.

biography

Walburga Pfneisl was born in Tattendorf (Lower Austria), a few kilometers south of Vienna , at today's address Badner Straße 12, as the illegitimate daughter of the day laborer Thekla Pfneisl and the sub-teacher from Kolomierschitz (Koloměřice), a district of Chrášťany u Týna nad Vltavou in Bohemia Josef Neužil was born. The parents married on March 11, 1895, and Walburga was given the father's family name. In 1896 the father was transferred to the elementary school in the nearby community of Moosbrunn . Then he worked in Wiener Neudorf. In September 1901 he was appointed head of the school in Sparbach. He died in Mödling on February 13, 1902. Thekla Neuzil moved to Vienna with her daughters Anna, Walburga (Wally), Berta, Antonia and Marie and their mother. In Lehmann's Viennese address book for the first time in 1906, as headmaster-Wwe. , registered, she now worked as a housekeeper and changed her addresses frequently in the following years (12th, 10th, 2nd, 20th, 2nd district). According to the registry, Wally lived with her mother.

It is often rumored that Walburga Neuzil first worked as a model for Gustav Klimt , but it cannot be proven. Wally Egon had been Schiele's most important model and his partner since around 1912 . She lived with him in a little house in the Vienna Woods, "In der Au" near Neulengbach , where the artist created some of his most important works, for which Wally was his model, but also numerous erotic depictions of children. Schiele was arrested in April 1912 and charged with "kidnapping" and "desecration". Wally was one of the few who stood by him and believed in his innocence. She took him his painting supplies to jail and found a lawyer. ... none of my closest acquaintances moved except Wally, who I knew briefly at the time and who behaved so nobly that it captivated me ... (Egon Schiele's letter to Franz Hauer , January 25, 1914).

In autumn 1912, Egon Schiele moved into a studio apartment, 13th, Hietzinger Hauptstrasse 101, in a good residential area in Vienna, where, to the displeasure of the neighbors, he continued to live in a "wild marriage" with Walburga (see plaque). The Vienna City and State Archives, however, published a registration form, which Schiele had filled out himself on May 16, 1913 from the police station Unter-St.-Veit , according to which Walli Neuzil had moved out of her mother's apartment in the 20th district, Allerheiligenplatz 6, until August 10, 1913 ( left without giving a new address) lived in house 13., Feldmühlgasse 3, 2nd floor, door 7. In this street branching off from Hietzinger Hauptstrasse, Gustav Klimt , Schiele's mentor, had his studio at no. 11 (in Lehmann with no. 9) ; possibly decisive for Schiele to settle nearby.

In 1915 Schiele completed one of his main works, Death and Maiden , in the studio on Hietzinger Hauptstrasse , which shows the painter and his muse in a peculiarly painful embrace. The painting is widely seen as his farewell picture from Wally.

In February 1915, when Egon Schiele was called up for military service, he wrote to his friend and patron Arthur Roessler : … I plan to marry, best, not Wally… In June 1915 Schiele married Edith Harms. She lived across from Schiele: 13., Hietzinger Hauptstrasse 114 (see memorial plaque). He is said to have suggested to Wally during the last discussion in their regular café that they go on vacation together at least once a year. This was not acceptable to either Wally or Edith.

Egon Schiele spent the following war years in training camps in Prague and Neuhaus in Bohemia , and later as a soldier in various prisoner-of-war camps in Lower Austria. His wife Edith had to accompany him everywhere.

Hilde Berger thinks that Klimt painted Wally in 1916. In fact, Gustav Klimt 's portrait of Wally does not depict Wally Neuzil. The picture, however, was relocated during World War II and burned in 1945 at Immendorf Castle near Hollabrunn , Lower Austria, as were three of Klimt's faculty pictures.

After Schiele separated from her, Wally trained as an auxiliary nurse in Vienna and worked in Vienna at War Hospital No. 1; that was a barrack camp on the edge of the Wilhelminenspital area in the 16th district of Vienna . In 1917 she signed off from Vienna with the destination Sebenico, Dalmatia . She worked first in Sebenico / Šibenik and then in the kk Landwehr -Marodenhaus in Sinj , about 35 km inland from the port city of Split (Spalato). Wally Neuzil died there of scarlet fever on December 25, 1917 . She was buried on December 27, 1917 in the Sveti Frane von Sinj cemetery, in grave number 162 D (discovered in 2015 by Lana Bunjevac, daily Jutarnji list , Zagreb). In April 2016, Robert Holzbauer was also able to find an entry on her death in the Sinj city register of the dead.

One of the numerous legends is that Schiele changed the title of his painting Mann und Mädchen to Death and Maiden when he heard of her death. However, this cannot be proven by any source.

Egon Schiele and his wife Edith died of the Spanish flu in Vienna in October 1918 .

Commemoration

In Walburga Neuzil's birthplace Tattendorf, Wally-Neuzil-Platz was named after her. In 2017 the association "Wally-Neuzil-Gesellschaft / Wally Neuzil Society" was founded with its seat in Baden near Vienna. In Sinj in Croatia (Split region), her grave was renovated on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of her death. In the Galerija Galiotovic in Sinj from December 19, 2017 to January 13, 2018, the exhibition "Tko je bila Wally Neuzil?" (Who was Wally Neuzil?) Instead. On the occasion of her 125th birthday, the exhibition "Wally Neuzil - the muse Egon Schiele" was on view in Tattendorf at the Dachauer Mühle winery from September 5 to October 26, 2019.

In the 2016 feature film Egon Schiele: Death and Girls by Dieter Berner , based on the biographical novel Death and Girls: Egon Schiele and the Women by Hilde Berger , Wally Neuzil was played by Valerie Pachner .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://polexinas.blog.cz/1706
  2. ↑ Example: Lehmann 1910, Volume 2, p. 841
  3. ↑ The house at Allerheiligenplatz 6 on a private website ( memento of the original from December 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.wienwert.at
  4. ^ Wally's registration form on the website of the Vienna City and State Archives
  5. ^ Klimt's burned Wally picture , in: website of the daily newspaper Die Presse , Vienna, July 21, 2010, and printed edition of July 22, 2010
  6. ↑ http://wallyneuzil.eu/

literature

  • Robert Holzbauer, Klaus Pokorny: Blown Traces. The fate of Wally Neuzil (1894–1917) , Im Leopold Museum , Vienna 2010, Ed. 2/2010, pp. 8–11
  • Hilde Berger: Death and Maiden. Egon Schiele and the women. Böhlau Verlag, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-205-78378-7
  • Christian M. Nebehay: Egon Schiele. 1890-1918. Life, letters, poems. Residenzverlag, Salzburg 1979.
  • Diethard Leopold - Stephan Pumberger - Birgit Summerauer: Wally Neuzil. Your life with Egon Schiele , Brandstätter Verlag, Vienna 2015, ISBN 978-3-85033-911-7
  • Lana Bunjevac: Schielova najveća musa pokopana je u Sinju: Ovdje, na groblju sv. Frane, leže posmrtni ostaci bečke Mona Lise , Globus magazine , Zagreb, December 11, 2015
  • Drazen Duilo: Djevojka s portreta od 20 milijuna dolara leži u sinjskom grobu , daily newspaper Slobodna Dalmacija , Split, April 22, 2016, pp. 29–32
  • David d´Arcy: The grave of Schiele's muse, Wally Neuzil, found in Croatia, The Art Newspaper, New York November 22, 2017
  • Otto Brusatti: The myth lies (almost always), Die Presse, December 22, 2017
  • Robert Holzbauer, Marija Škegro: Tko je bila Wally Neuzil? / Who was Wally Neuzil ?, Split 2017, ISBN 978-953-57273-5-4
  • Robert Holzbauer: Death and Resurrection. New Findings on the End by Wally Neuzil (1894–1917), Egon Schiele Yearbook Volume IV-VIII, pp. 180–200, ISBN 978-3-200-06428-7

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personal data
SURNAME Neuzil, Wally
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Neuzil, Walburga
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian model and partner of Egon Schiele
DATE OF BIRTH August 19, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Tattendorf , Lower Austria
DATE OF DEATH December 27, 1917
Place of death Sinj , Dalmatia