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Wally Neuzil
Walburga "Wally" Neuzil (18 August 1894 – 25 December 1917) was an Austrian nurse who was the lover and muse of the artist Egon Schiele between 1911 and 1915.
Neuzil was born in Tattendorf, a small village of about 800 people Lower Austria in 1894, the second child of Thekla Pfneisl, a day labourer, and Josef Neuzil, an elementary school teacher. Thekla and Josef married in March 1895, and had three more daughters (Berta, Antonia and Mari) before Josef's death at a hospital in Mödling in 1902 (1905 in some sources). After her husband's death, Thekla had two more children, sons named Johann and Ernst.[citation needed]
In 1906, Thekla and her five daughters (Wally had an older sister named Anna) relocated to Vienna, some 30 kilometres to the north of Tattendorf. Neuzil's mother derived a small pension because of her status as a widow of a government official, but this was barely enough to meet the needs of her family and records indicate that they had a peripatetic existence living in the poorer parts of Vienna.[citation needed] In contemporary records, Neuzil is registered variously as a sales assistant, cashier, or storefront model. It was rumored that she was a prostitute because she worked as an artist's model.[citation needed]
Neuzil met the Austrian artist Egon Schiele in 1911; she was 17 and he was 21. The circumstances under which they met are unknown, although it has been suggested that they were introduced by Klimt, of whom Schiele was a protégé and Neuzil was a model. According to Wally Neuzil Society, it is somehow a common myth that the painter Gustav Klimt 'donated' his model Wally to Schiele: Klimt did not work with young models at this time and there is no work by Klimt known showing Wally Neuzil.
Schiele and Neuzil became lovers, and Neuzil soon moved into Schiele's Vienna home, and over the next four years modelled regularly for his paintings; they were also lovers for much of this period. Neuzil featured in several of Schiele's most well-known paintings, including Portrait of Wally (1912), Wally Neuzil in Black Stockings (1912), and Wally in Red Blouse with Raised Knees (1913).
After struggling to fit into Viennese society, Neuzil and Schiele moved to his mother's hometown of Krumau (now Český Krumlov) in Bohemia. However, their lifestyle choices, including their unmarried status and Schiele's alleged employment of local girls as models, led to criticism from locals and the couple soon moving to Neulengbach, near Vienna, in 1912.
Low on money while living in Neulengbach and with Schiele unable to buy paint and canvas, Wally was dispatched by train to Vienna to try and sell Schiele`s paintings to art collectors.Many of these paintings featured Wally as a subject in suggestive poses, hence it has been theorized the reason Schiele asked Wally to sell them instead of himself was that that male buyers would find it tiltillating to see the model and be more inclined to buy the art.
While living in Neulengbach Schiele was dogged by similar rumours as in Krumau, and was arrested for seducing a twelve-year-old girl; while this charge was dropped, Schiele was charged with exhibiting erotic art in a place accessible to children. Schiele wrote how Neuzil was the only one of his friends and acquaintances who continued to offer him support during the twenty-four days he spent in prison.
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Wally Neuzil
Walburga "Wally" Neuzil (18 August 1894 – 25 December 1917) was an Austrian nurse who was the lover and muse of the artist Egon Schiele between 1911 and 1915.
Neuzil was born in Tattendorf, a small village of about 800 people Lower Austria in 1894, the second child of Thekla Pfneisl, a day labourer, and Josef Neuzil, an elementary school teacher. Thekla and Josef married in March 1895, and had three more daughters (Berta, Antonia and Mari) before Josef's death at a hospital in Mödling in 1902 (1905 in some sources). After her husband's death, Thekla had two more children, sons named Johann and Ernst.[citation needed]
In 1906, Thekla and her five daughters (Wally had an older sister named Anna) relocated to Vienna, some 30 kilometres to the north of Tattendorf. Neuzil's mother derived a small pension because of her status as a widow of a government official, but this was barely enough to meet the needs of her family and records indicate that they had a peripatetic existence living in the poorer parts of Vienna.[citation needed] In contemporary records, Neuzil is registered variously as a sales assistant, cashier, or storefront model. It was rumored that she was a prostitute because she worked as an artist's model.[citation needed]
Neuzil met the Austrian artist Egon Schiele in 1911; she was 17 and he was 21. The circumstances under which they met are unknown, although it has been suggested that they were introduced by Klimt, of whom Schiele was a protégé and Neuzil was a model. According to Wally Neuzil Society, it is somehow a common myth that the painter Gustav Klimt 'donated' his model Wally to Schiele: Klimt did not work with young models at this time and there is no work by Klimt known showing Wally Neuzil.
Schiele and Neuzil became lovers, and Neuzil soon moved into Schiele's Vienna home, and over the next four years modelled regularly for his paintings; they were also lovers for much of this period. Neuzil featured in several of Schiele's most well-known paintings, including Portrait of Wally (1912), Wally Neuzil in Black Stockings (1912), and Wally in Red Blouse with Raised Knees (1913).
After struggling to fit into Viennese society, Neuzil and Schiele moved to his mother's hometown of Krumau (now Český Krumlov) in Bohemia. However, their lifestyle choices, including their unmarried status and Schiele's alleged employment of local girls as models, led to criticism from locals and the couple soon moving to Neulengbach, near Vienna, in 1912.
Low on money while living in Neulengbach and with Schiele unable to buy paint and canvas, Wally was dispatched by train to Vienna to try and sell Schiele`s paintings to art collectors.Many of these paintings featured Wally as a subject in suggestive poses, hence it has been theorized the reason Schiele asked Wally to sell them instead of himself was that that male buyers would find it tiltillating to see the model and be more inclined to buy the art.
While living in Neulengbach Schiele was dogged by similar rumours as in Krumau, and was arrested for seducing a twelve-year-old girl; while this charge was dropped, Schiele was charged with exhibiting erotic art in a place accessible to children. Schiele wrote how Neuzil was the only one of his friends and acquaintances who continued to offer him support during the twenty-four days he spent in prison.