Object #3

Arnold Schönberg
Hatred
1910
Oil on three-ply panel
Catalogue raisonné 81

Private collection

“The paintings of Schönberg fall into two categories: those which are drawn perfectly to nature, such as people or landscapes; and those which are intuitively conceived heads, which he calls ‘Visions.’
Of the first group, Schönberg himself refers to these as necessary finger-exercises, does not value them especially, and is reluctant to exhibit them.
The second group he paints, just as infrequently as the first, in order to allow those stirrings of the soul, which cannot find any musical form, to come to expression.
These two kinds are outwardly quite different. Inwardly they stem from one and the same soul, which sometimes is made to vibrate by external nature, and at other times, by nature within him.“

(Wassily Kandinsky: The Paintings, in Arnold Schönberg. Mit Beiträgen von Alban Berg et al. Munich 1912)