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The Reiner Boy (Portrait of Herbert Reiner)
Bildnis Herbert Rainer (Rainerbub)
Date1910

Artist Egon Schiele (1890 Tulln – 1918 Wien)

ULAN

Object typePainting
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions
101 × 101,5 cm
SignatureSign. und dat. rechts Mitte: S.10.
Inventory number4766
Location Currently not on display
In 1910 the renowned orthopedic specialist Max Reiner commissioned a portrait of his five-year-old son Herbert from the young painter Egon Schiele. The artist depicted him in front of a blank surface and wearing a red garment that envelops him like a loose cloak. There are no objects to indicate the child’s age. Rather, his strikingly coarse hands appear much older than the sitter himself and contrast with the boy’s radiant, innocent gaze. Schiele painted The Reiner Boy together with a series of portraits that are all in a square format and share similar compositions.

Provenance
Exhibitions

Max Reiner, Wien.
Sigmund Rosenbaum, Wien.
1919 Richard Lanyi, Wien.
1930 Arthur Stemmer, Wien
1954 Tausch mit Rudolf Leopold, Wien

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